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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva [a] (née 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.
However, Stalin's condition continued to deteriorate and he died at 9:50 p.m. on 5 March 1953. His death was announced the next day on Radio Moscow by Yuri Levitan. [7] Stalin's body was then taken to an unspecified location and an autopsy performed, after which it was embalmed for public viewing.
A second child, daughter Svetlana, was born in 1926. [46] In 1921, the family also took in Stalin's first son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, who had been living in Tiflis with Svandize's relatives. [47] Alliluyeva was only six years older than her step-son, Dzhugashvili, with whom she developed a friendly relationship. [48]
After Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, Beria's ambitions sprang into full force. In the uneasy silence following the cessation of Stalin's last agonies, he was the first to dart forward to kiss his lifeless form (a move likened by Montefiore to "wrenching a dead King's ring off his finger"). [59]
Ekaterine Giorgis asuli Geladze [a] (1856/1858 [2] [b] – 4 June 1937) was the mother of Joseph Stalin.She was commonly known as Keke.. Born into a family of peasants outside of Gori, in modern Georgia, she married Besarion Jughashvili, a cobbler, and had three sons; only the youngest, Ioseb, lived.
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili [a] (31 March [O.S. 18 March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family.
In 1938, Stalin ordered Alyosha and his wife, Maria, to be arrested. He demanded Alyosha admit he was a German spy, but Alyosha refused. [34] Alyosha was executed in 1941, while Mariko and Maria were shot in 1942. [35] Alyosha and Maria's son, Ivan Svanidze, was briefly married to Stalin's only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. He filed for ...
Under Stalin's patronage, Molotov became a full member of the Politburo in January 1926. ... According to Stalin's daughter, ... He was buried in the Novodevichy ...