Nadezhda Alliluyeva: Difference between revisions

#Figure 2: From the Alliluev family album. Stalin's mother-in-law, Ol'ga Evgen'eva Allilueva (1905), and his father-in-law, Sergei Iakovlevich Alliluev (1914), who first met Stalin in Tbilisi during 1904. [[RGASPI]], f.558, op.11, d.1651, nos. 16 and 15.

#Figure 3: From the family album of the Alliluevs. Stalin during 1915 during his Siberian exile and his future wife, Nadezhda Allilueva, taken during 1912, about a year after he met her. [[RGASPI]], f.558, op.11, d.1651, nos. 18 and 22.

 

After the revolution, Nadezhda worked as a confidential code clerk in [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin's]] office. She eschewed fancy dress, makeup, and other trappings that she felt un-befitting for a proper [[Bolshevik]].

#"Dnevnik . . . Svanidze," 177. Characteristically, Stalin's reaction was to rage at the world exactly as he had done when his first wife died. Iremaschwili, Stalin, 40–41. His ritualistic mourning of Nadezhda had much emotional ambivalence. Allilueva, Dvadtsat' pisem, 99–109.

#Allilueva, Dvadtsat' pisem, 23, 45.

Among the first relatives to arrive were Zhenya and her husband Pavel, who was Nadya’s brother. They were shocked not only by the death of a sister but by the sight of Stalin himself, who had never seemed so vulnerable. He threatened suicide and asked Zhenya: “What’s missing in me?” She temporarily moved in to watch over him. One night she heard screeching and found him lying on a sofa in the half-light, spitting at the wall, which was dripping with trails of saliva

#Extracted from Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore

 

Svetlana, Nadezhda's daughter, [[defector|defected]] to the US in 1967, where she eventually published her autobiography, which included recollections of her parents and their relationship. Svetlana became a British citizen in 1992, and died at the age of 85 in 2011.