Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Alliluyeva
Светлана Аллилуева (Russian) სვეტლანა ალილუევა (Georgian)
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.
Cause of death	Problems caused by colon cancer
Nationality	Soviet (1926–1967, 1984–1991) American (naturalized 1978–1984) British (1992–2011)
Other names	Lana Peters
Occupation(s)	Writer and lecturer
Known for	Daughter of Joseph Stalin
Spouses	Grigory Morozov ​ ​ (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 Dzhugashvili (brother) Yakov Dzhugashvili (half-brother) Konstantin Kuzakov (half-brother)
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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva^[a] (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 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 was given back.^[1] She was Stalin's last surviving child.^[2]

Alliluyeva died on 22 November 2011 at a hospital in Richland Center, Wisconsin from problems caused by colon cancer, aged 85.^[3]

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