Stalin's Daughter (90 page)

43
. Bernard D. Nossiter, “Svetlana Charges Distortions,”
Washington Post
, Feb. 26, 1970, p. 11.

44
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 3, 1968, PUL.

45
. Author’s interview with Yelena Khanga, Moscow, Jan. 28, 2014.

46
. Author’s interview with Leonid and Galina Alliluyev, Moscow, May 17, 2013.

47
. Golden,
Long Journey Home
, 155–56.

CHAPTER 24: THE TALIESIN FIASCO

1
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 56.

2
. Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman,
The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
(New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 50.

3
. Meryle Secrest,
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
(New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 510.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid., 512.

6
. Ibid., 513–14.

7
. Kamal Amin,
Reflections from the Shining Brow: My Years with Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lazarovich
(McKinleyville, CA: Fithian Press, 2004), 216.

8
. Author’s interview with Aris Georges, Spring Green, WI, Aug. 27, 2012.

9
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 57.

10
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 3, HIA.

11
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 60.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 3, HIA.

14
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 62.

15
. Amin,
Reflections
, 216–18.

16
. Ibid.

17
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 5, HIA.

18
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 62.

19
. Amin,
Reflections
, 219.

20
. Author’s interview with Alan Schwartz, Los Angeles, Dec. 5, 2013.

21
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 63.

22
. Author’s interview with Alan Schwartz, Los Angeles, Dec. 5, 2013.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Amin,
Reflections
, 219.

25
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 568. Quitclaim deed filed Apr. 4, 1970, Iowa County land records.

26
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 568. Comment attributed to O. P. Reed, Nov. 8, 1999.

27
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 6, HIA.

28
. Amin,
Reflections
, 223.

29
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 65.

30
. Letter to George Kennan, July 3, 1970, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

31
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 568.

32
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 68.

33
. Author’s interview with Walter Pozen, New York, Feb. 12, 2013.

34
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 568.

35
. Letter to Donald Jameson, June 2, 1970, PC, Margaret Jameson.

36
. Ibid.

37
. Ibid.

38
. Amin,
Reflections
, 217.

CHAPTER 25: THE MONTENEGRIN’S COURTIER

1
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 569, interview with Lana Peters, June 14, 2000.

2
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 67.

3
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 569.

4
. Ibid., 573.

5
. Amin,
Reflections
, 226.

6
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 76.

7
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 577.

8
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 77.

9
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 574.

10
. Letter to George Kennan, Mar. 26, 1971, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

11
. Letter to Joan Kennan, June 26, 1971, PC, J. Kennan.

12
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 80.

13
. Ibid., 81.

14
. Ibid., 63.

15
. Financial report of law firm Strook & Strook & Lavan, May 31, 1972, “Valuation of Details of Aldebaran Enterprise,” PC, J. Kennan.

16
. Svetlana Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” unpublished typescript in English, Svetlana Peters II: General File, HIA, published as
Kniga dlia vnuchek: puteshestvie na rodinu
[A Book for Granddaughters: Journey to the Motherland] (New York: Liberty Publishing House, 1991), 186. Svetlana wrote on the typed title page: “Authorized version in English prepared from the Russian original by the author. 1988–89.” It was published in Russian by Liberty in 1991, but never in English.

17
. Letter to Annelise Kennan, Oct. 6, 1971, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

18
. Author’s interview with Aris Georges, Spring Green, WI, Aug. 27, 2012.

19
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 69.

20
. Amin,
Reflections
, 223.

21
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 87–88.

22
. Ibid., 57.

23
. Ibid., 61.

24
. Letter to George Kennan, June 15, 1970, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

25
. Amin,
Reflections
, 223.

26
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 576, interview with Don and Virginia Lovness, Apr. 15, 1996.

27
. Amin,
Reflections
, 225.

28
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 576.

29
. Financial report of law firm Strook & Strook & Lavan, May 31, 1972, “Valuation of Details of Aldebaran Enterprise,” PC, J. Kennan.

30
. Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

31
. Author’s interview with Walter Pozen, New York, Feb. 12, 2013.

32
. Author’s interview with Michael Coyne, Dec. 17, 2013.

33
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 94.

34
. Ibid., 96.

35
. “Stalin’s Daughter Leaves Her Husband,”
New York Times
, Feb. 23, 1972.

36
. “Joseph Stalin’s Daughter Leaves Her Husband,”
Danville Register and Bee
, Feb. 23, 1972.

37
. Ibid.

38
. “Stalin’s Daughter Disputes Husband on Separation,”
New York Times
, Feb. 24, 1972.

39
. Ibid.

40
. Friedland and Zellman,
The Fellowship
, 577, interview with Iovanna Wright, July 24, 2000.

41
. Letter to Joan Kennan, Apr. 3, 1972, PC, J. Kennan.

42
. Author’s interview with Walter Pozen, New York, Feb. 12, 2013; and financial report of law firm Strook & Strook & Lavan, May 31, 1972, “Valuation of Details of Aldebaran Enterprise,” PC, J. Kennan.

43
. Wilson,
The Sixties
, 877.

44
. Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

45
. Author’s interview with Walter Pozen, New York, Feb. 12, 2013.

46
. Letter to Joan Kennan, May 23, 1972, PC, J. Kennan.

47
. Letter to Joan Kennan, June 3, 1972, PC, J. Kennan.

CHAPTER 26: STALIN’S DAUGHTER CUTTING THE GRASS

1
. Letter to Annelise Kennan, Aug. 7, 1972, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Letter to George Kennan, June 1, 1973, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Author’s interview with Hella McVay, Princeton, Dec. 3, 2012.

6
. Letter to Jerzy Kosinski, undated, Katherina von Fraunhofer-Kosinski Collection of Jerzy Kosinski, Gen. Mss. 742, box 24, Misc. Correspondence, BRB.

7
. Jerzy Kosinski,
Blind Date
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), 78–79.

8
. Author’s interview with Evgeniya Tucker, Feb. 14, 2013.

9
. Rosa Shand, “Wheel of Fire,”
Southwest Review
87, no. 1 (January 2002): 90.

10
. Ibid., 92.

11
. Ibid., 93–94

12
. Ibid., 95.

13
. Anna Akhmatova,
Requiem
and
Poem Without a Hero
, trans. D. M. Thomas. The poem was banned in the USSR and was first published in Munich in 1963.

14
. Shand, “Wheel of Fire,” 95.

15
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 127.

16
. Author’s interview with Millie Harford, Princeton, Dec. 3, 2012.

17
. Ibid.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Letter to Rosa Shand, Nov. 5, 1974, PC, Shand.

20
. Letter to Annelise Kennan, July 28, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

21
. Letter to Donald Jameson, Nov. 6, 1973, PC, Margaret Jameson.

22
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 116.

23
. Letter to Annelise Kennan, July 28, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

24
. Letter to Annelise Kennan, July 22, 1974, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

25
. Ibid.

26
. Letter to Rosa Shand, Mar. 25, 1975, PC, Shand.

27
. Letter to author from George Krimsky, Aug. 27, 2014.

28
. Letter from “A Friend” to George Kennan, Aug. 5, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38 folder 5, PUL.

29
. Thompson,
Hawk and the Dove
, 248; and letter from Mark Garrison, Department of State, to George Kennan, Aug. 14, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 5, PUL.

30
. Nicholas Thompson interview with George Krimsky, June 22, 2008. See Thompson,
Hawk and the Dove
, 248–50.

31
. Letter to George Kennan, Oct. 15, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 5, PUL.

32
. Thompson,
Hawk and the Dove
, 249.

33
. Sharon Schlegel, “I Don’t Want to Be Svetlana Any More,”
Washington Post
, July 29, 1979, 7.

CHAPTER 27: A KGB STOOL PIGEON

1
. Letter to George Kennan, Aug. 1, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, file 4, PUL.

2
. Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 23, 2013.

3
. Letter to George Kennan, Aug. 1, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, file 4, PUL.

4
. Letter to Joan Kennan, July 14, 1976, PC, J. Kennan.

5
. “DIA Cites Soviet Microwave Research,”
Christian Science Monitor
, Nov. 22, 1976.

6
. Letter to Donald Jameson, Nov. 20, 1976, PC, Margaret Jameson.

7
. Letter to George Kennan, Feb. 2, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.

8
. Letter to George Kennan, Apr. 23, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.

9
. Letter to Joan Kennan, June 6, 1977, PC, J. Kennan.