SERIES OF aUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND POStCARDS IN RUSSIAN BY STALIN'S DAUGHTER Svetlana Alilluyeva, SIGNED ("SVETLANA"), WITH annotated PHOTOGRAPHS, 1985-1992. Signed.
by Stalin, Svetlana Alilluyeva (1926-2011)
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Spring Green and Middleton, WI; London: 1985-1992.. 27 Als. and cards and original photographs. Over 60 pages, mainly 4to; 5 postcards with Wisconsin views, one letter on a Christmas card, one other incomplete, 10 autograph envelopes (some return-addressed as Lana Peters), 12 photographs (annotated by her on versos), Tblisi, Spring Green and Middleton, WI) and London, 30 June 1985 to 4 February 1992, tears to one letter.The letters are to to her school-friend Yura Gerchikov in Stockholm, and to Yura's daughter Katya Wik about her life in Wisconsin and London with her daughter Olga Peters Evans (including family pictures) , her alienation from the USSR and her children there (Katya, who refused contact or to permit contact with her granddaughter, and Joseph, who joined the KGB), her fond hope that the Communist Party might disappear for ever, her Russian pension and her financial troubles, God, Disneyworld, friends in Europe, the photographs showing Svetlana and Olga together, their house in Spring Green and Olga's wedding.The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died in the US at the age of 85.Svetlana Alliluyeva, also known as Lana Peters, died of colon cancer at a care home in the state of Wisconsin.Her defection from the Soviet Union in 1967 was a propaganda coup for the US. She wrote four books, including two best-selling memoirs.
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- SERIES OF aUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND POStCARDS IN RUSSIAN BY STALIN'S DAUGHTER Svetlana Alilluyeva, SIGNED ("SVETLANA"), WITH annotated PHOTOGRAPHS, 1985-1992. Signed.
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- Stalin, Svetlana Alilluyeva (1926-2011)
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- Spring Green and Middleton, WI; London: 1985-1992.
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