- Daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- Moved to the USA in 1967. Published several books.
- Her last husband, William Wesley Peters, was an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.
- When she was six years old her mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva--Joseph Stalin's second wife--committed suicide, but she was told her mother died of appendicitis. She would find out the truth ten years later. Her brother, Yakov Stalin, was an officer in the Russian army and was captured by German forces during World War II. He was executed when Stalin refused to exchange him for a German general.
- Her father Joseph Stalin had sent her first love, a Jewish filmmaker, to Siberia for 10 years. She wanted to study literature at Moscow University but her father insisted that she study history, and she did. After she graduated with a degree from Moscow University, she taught Soviet literature and the English language. She then worked as a literary translator.
- A year after her first love was imprisoned in Siberia she married Grigory Morozov, a fellow Jewish student. Her father had slapped her and refused to meet him. They married in 1945 and had a son, Iosif Morozov, before divorcing in 1947. She remarried to Yuri Zhdanov, the son of Stalin's right hand man, Andrei Zhdanov. They had a daughter, Yekaterina Zhdanov, and divorced too.
- On New Year's Eve in 1952, her father grabbed her by her fair and forced her to dance. Her father died in 1953. In the 1960s, she fell in love with Brijesh Singh, an Indian Communist, who was visiting Moscow. After he became ill and died, the Soviets gave permission to her to take his ashes home to India. Once in India, she sought political asylum at the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India. Before her defection, the K.G.B. had planned to assassinate her. She arrived in New York City in April 1967 and settled in Princeton, New Jersey. Her children, Iosif Morozov, and Yekaterina Zhdanov remained in Russia.
- She married William Wesley Peters in 1970 and had a daughter, Olga Peters (born in 1972). They divorced in 1973.
- She became a United States citizen in 1978 and registered as a Republican. She donated $500.00 to the conservative magazine, The National Review.
- She and her daughter, Olga, moved to California in several places before moving to England in 1982 where she enrolled Olga in an English boarding school.
- Following her defection in 1967, she was unable to communicate and have a relationship with her son, Iosif Morozov, and her daughter, Yekaterina Zhdanov, in the Soviet Union. She returned to Moscow in November 1984 after denouncing the West and the United States. She and Olga were granted Soviet citizenship and experienced being shunned by her Soviet son and daughter.
- They returned to the United States in April 1986 without facing opposition by the Soviet authorities. They settled in Wisconsin and Olga returned to boarding school in England. After she returned to the United States, she disavowed the anti-Western things said upon her arrival in Moscow, saying that she had been mistranslated particularly the statement about being the C.I.A.'s pet.
- She is survived by her daughter, Olga Peters Evans, and another daughter, Yekaterina Zhdanov of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Siberia. Her son, Dr. Iosif Morozov died in November 2008.
- Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA (May 2010)
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