The obituary was for a woman named Lana Peters, who died in a small Wisconsintown on Nov. 22, 2011, at the age of 85. She was a woman who had gone by severalnames during the course of her remarkable life, none of which could hide thefact she was the daughter of notorious Russian dictator Joseph S
The documents were released Monday to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act following Lana Peters' death last year at age 85 in a Wisconsin nursing home. Her defection to the West during the Cold War embarrassed the ruling communists and made her a best-selling author. And her moWhen she defected, Peters was known as Svetlana Alliluyeva, but she went by Lana Peters following her 1970 marriage to William Wesley Peters, an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright. Peters said her defection was partly motivated by the Soviet authorities' poor treatment of her late husband, Brijesh Sin
Date: Nov 19, 2012
Category: U.S.
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Lana Peters, Stalin's Only Daughter, Dies at 85 After Turbulent Life
By the time of her death from colon cancer on November 22 in Richland County, Wis., the Soviet leaders last surviving child, christened Svetlana Stalina, went by the name Lana Peters. In between she had taken the last name Alliluyeva, belonging to her mother Nadezhda, Stalins second wife who commi
The rest of her life, as Lana Peters, was spent on the move, in one act of disappearance after another. In the end she seemed to have decided that moving to America was a mistake, although the Russia she knew and still dreamed about, the Russia of lakes and natural wilderness and a kindly father wit
Lana Peters, the only daughter and last surviving child ofSoviet dictator Josef Stalin, died of colon cancer Nov. 22 inRichland County. Peters was 85 and had lived in Richland Center forthe past several years.
Svetlana Alliluyeva, who was known as Lana Peters since 1970, died of colon cancer Nov. 22 in Wisconsin, a state where she lived off and on after becoming a U.S. citizen, said Richland County Coroner Mary Turner.worked as a teacher and translator and traveled in Moscow's literary circles before leaving the Soviet Union. She was married four times the last time to William Wesley Peters, after she came to the U.S., and she took the name Lana Peters. The couple had a daughter, Olga, before divorcing in 1973.
Born Svetlana Stalina, she adopted her mother's last name, Alliluyeva, following her father's death in 1953. But she ended her life as Lana Peters the identity she adopted after claiming political asylum in the US.
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