Svetlana Alliluyeva
Youngest child of Josef Stalin who defected to the U.S. in 1967 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Iosifovna and the family name is Alliluyeva.
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva[lower-alpha 1] (born Stalina;[lower-alpha 2] 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international sensation when she defected to the United States and, in 1978, became a naturalized citizen. From 1984 to 1986, she briefly returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship reinstated.[1] She was Stalin's last surviving child.[2]
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Born | Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina (1926-02-28)28 February 1926 |
Died | 22 November 2011(2011-11-22) (aged 85) |
Other names | Lana Peters |
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Occupation(s) | Writer and lecturer |
Known for | Daughter of Joseph Stalin |
Notable work | Twenty Letters to a Friend (book), Only One Year (book) |
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