Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of the murderous dictator Joseph Stalin, renounced materialism and converted to Catholicism. Joseph would not have approved. In fact, Svetlana once reportedly told an ...

In the spring of 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter and surviving child of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States, leaving behind two children. On the final leg of ...

Now Stalin’s daughter was “Lana Peters.” She and Wes had a baby, Olga. The marriage broke up shortly after. Svetlana was restless, moving from place to place, and religion to religion.

A rare photo of Marshal Josef Stalin holding his daughter, Svetlana. The photo was taken in 1937, at Stalin’s country house in the suburbs of Moscow.

Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, was seldom alone but always lonely. Her life was crowded with people intending to manipulate, swindle or exploit her.

Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, lived on a farm outside of East Berlin for a brief time after defecting from the former Soviet Union.

Tattooed Chrese Evans, 44, of Portland, Ore. -- a Buddhist who runs an antique shop -- is far removed from her notorious grandfather, Joseph Stalin, the former Soviet Union’s ruthless “man of ...

Russian Communist Party Leader Joseph Stalin with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, Moscow 1933. (Laski Diffusion / Getty Images / Hulton Archive) By Wendy Smith . June 11, 2015 9:30 AM PT .

Joseph Stalin with his son, Vasili, and daughter, Svetlana, age 8. She is the subject of "Stalin's Daughter" by Rosemary Sullivan (Harper, June 2015). Credit: Harper ...

It should come as no surprise to learn that being born under a shadow as large and daunting as Joseph Stalin's inevitably comes with complications. Svetlana Alliluyeva, the youngest child and only ...