Youngest child of Josef Stalin who defected to the U.S. in 1967
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Iosifovna and the family name is Alliluyeva.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Светлана Аллилуева
სვეტლანა ალილუევა
Alliluyeva in January 1970
Born
Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina
(1926-02-28)28 February 1926
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died
22 November 2011(2011-11-22) (aged 85)
Richland Center, Wisconsin, U.S.
Other names
Lana Peters
Citizenship
Soviet (1926–1967, 1984–1991)
Stateless (1967–1978)
American (naturalized 1978–1984)
British (1992–2011)
Occupation(s)
Writer and lecturer
Known for
Daughter of Joseph Stalin
Notable work
Twenty Letters to a Friend (book), Only One Year (book)
Spouses
Grigory Morozov [ru]
(m. 1944; div. 1947)
Yuri Zhdanov
(m. 1949; div. 1952)
Ivan Svanidze
(m. 1962; div. 1963)
William Wesley Peters
(m. 1970; div. 1973)
Children
Iosif Alliluyev (1945–2008)
Yekaterina "Katya" Zhdanova (b. 1950)
Olga Peters / Chrese Evans (b. 1971)
Parents
Joseph Stalin
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
Relatives
Vasily Stalin (brother)
Yakov Dzhugashvili (half-brother)
Artyom Sergeyev (adoptive brother)
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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva[a] (born Stalina;[b] 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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