Men of Svetlana Alliluyeva: what made Stalin’s daughter marry again and again
'27.10.2018'
Source: Culturology
Disputes about the personality of Svetlana Alliluyeva continue today. She changed men like gloves, she fled the country, left her children in the Soviet Union, and in later interviews admitted hostility toward the country in which she was born. It seemed that the woman lived all her life for her pleasure. But was her fate so simple? What did the Kremlin princess lacked, and why did she persistently strive to violate the boundaries of what was permitted?
To try to understand this editionCulturology".
Timid feeling
Many sources say that Svetlana experienced her first love for the son of almighty Beria - Sergo. The very daughter of Stalin never told anyone about her feelings for this young man. Sergo Beria, already at a mature age, admitted that there were more related feelings between him and Svetlana. She also introduced him to Marfa Peshkova, who later became his wife.
Stalin’s daughter recalled: the father strongly encouraged her relationship with Sergo, but later, when she was staying at Beria’s dacha, she strongly demanded that her daughter return home, sharply telling her that he did not trust his companion.
First Love
Svetlana experienced her first real feeling for screenwriter Alexey Kapler, who was older than 23. She was all 17, and she enthusiastically accepted the courtship of a man. As soon as my father found out about this relationship, it was all over. By order of Stalin, Kapler was exiled to Vorkuta on charges related to foreigners. After his release, he was forbidden to visit the capital. He tried to meet with Svetlana in 1948, but was immediately arrested and exiled to camps. Fully rehabilitated in 1954 year.
Svetlana Iosifovna admitted that it was thanks to Kapler that she became interested in art. But after this novel, the attitude of Stalin to the beloved has changed dramatically. He took her novel as a betrayal. The leader did not want to put up with the fact that his girl had matured.
After graduation, Svetlana applied for the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Upon learning of this, his father was furious. It seemed to him that his daughter was going to become a writer and lead a bohemian lifestyle. By his order, Svetlana the very next day stood in front of the selection committee and explained: her father demanded her admission to the Faculty of History.
First marriage
Already a year after admission, Svetlana Stalin marries MGIMO student Grigory Morozov. He beautifully courted his classmate's sister and made plans for how happy they would be together. To the surprise of the girl, her father took the news about her daughter's upcoming marriage almost indifferently.
She only admitted many years later: she had no feelings for her first husband. She just wanted to escape from the total control of his father. Despite the lack of feelings, he and Gregory lived quietly and measuredly, the couple had a son, Joseph, in 1945. But in 1947, the spouses, on Stalin’s orders, were divorced without explanation. As it turned out, the domineering father simply hated his daughter's husband. He chose the next husband, Svetlana personally.
By the will of the father
The marriage of Svetlana Stalin and Yuri Zhdanov lasted for three years, the daughter Ekaterina was born in the family. It was during this period that the modest and partly shy girl was transformed into a cold secular lioness. She began to spend time with her brother’s friends, not caring much about her family. Her father arranged everything in her marriage, but Svetlana herself began to look for what she already lacked: love, care, attention. Yuri and Svetlana broke up almost immediately after the birth of their daughter, but maintained friendly relations.
Stalin by this time was already seriously ill and did not pay any attention to his daughter's divorce.
Marriage to salvation
After Stalin's death, Svetlana changed her last name, becoming Alliluyeva. After debunking the personality cult, a young man appeared in her life, whom she had once tried to save from prison. Acquainted with Jonrid (Ivan) Svanidze before the war, she tried to put in a word for him and his parents, which only brought on the wrath of her father. Later, the young man was sent to a mental hospital, as the son of an enemy of the people, after - in exile.
They met by chance at a concert at the conservatory, and a month later they were already husband and wife. This marriage lasted just over a year. Ivan Svanidze believed that Svetlana simply hid behind the marriage with him. The daughter of a tyrant married his victim. But Svetlana’s friends are sure: he is tired of hearing news about his wife’s adventures.
Real love
Yet fate gave Svetlana Allilueva a chance to find out what real feelings are. In 1963, she met Brajesh Singh in a hospital. With him, she again felt like a princess. He was older than Svetlana by 26 years, but she had never seen such sensitivity, attention and love in her life. They shared with each other the most intimate. She without utayku told him the story of his life, and he listened. Attentive, sympathetic. However, Nikita Khrushchev himself did not allow him to become a husband and wife in love. Despite the fact that Singh was mortally ill, Svetlana was told that she would not receive permission to marry a foreigner. They were measured out only five years of happiness.
Probably neither before nor after, Svetlana was not so happy. Singh died, and Svetlana went to his homeland, to India, where she fulfilled his last will: to dispel his dust over the Ganges. She never returned to the Soviet Union.
The last dash
In India, Svetlana Alliluyeva lived for some time in the village where Brajesh Singh was born and raised, in the family of his relatives. However, one day they came for her and took her to the embassy by order of the party leadership of the USSR. There, she was able to deftly escape from surveillance during a gala reception. Having reached the US Embassy, Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva asked for political asylum. Soon she was secretly taken to Switzerland, then to the United States.
In America, she married William Peters, who worked as an architect and was known as a gambler and lover of women. Svetlana at that time received a very decent fee for publishing her book “20 Letters to a Friend”. The couple had a daughter, and soon Peters left Svetlana. She needed him only to pay off his debts.
She never married again. The Kremlin princess, who had all the material goods, did not have the main thing - happiness. She painfully searched for him all her life. Svetlana Alliluyeva died in November 2011 of the year in a nursing home from cancer.
In the memory of the people who knew her, Svetlana Alliluyeva remained a person with a difficult character and unpredictable actions. Stalin loved his little "Setanka-mistress", but as she grew up, she disappointed her father with unexpected actions, the desire to live in her own way. The Kremlin princess easily changed husbands and lovers, preferences and affections, opinions about countries and peoples, and places of residence. Her relationship with the children who remained in the USSR when she fled the Soviet Union was also difficult.
