For the context, the books of Rosemary Sullivan:<p><a href="http://rosemarysullivan.com/books/" rel="nofollow">http://rosemarysullivan.com/books/</a><p>Specifically, she isn't Stalin's daughter. She wrote a book about Stalin's daughter Svetlana, called "Stalin’s Daughter," not "I'm Stalin's Daughter," the article title is certainly confusing.<p>"With access to FBI, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana’s daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana’s incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy."<p>And it looks interesting.
In a similar vein, I find it surreal to realize that Stalin's granddaughter is alive and well and living in Portland, Oregon [1].<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/portland_granddaughter_of_jose.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/portlan...</a>
Not that it has a direct relationship with the article, but I'm watching The Americans (the TV show), it's made by an ex CIA officer, and I have to tell, the intelligence world is pretty scary. I can't comprehend how those couples could live such lives. I can't see any other work that is so mind sucking.<p>Although I have no idea how really accurate that show is, and I really have to look for clues about it.
“The marine guard on duty was about to tell her the pretty, neatly dressed woman that the embassy was closed when she handed him her passport. He blanched…”<p>From what? Her name was Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva. “Iosifovna” is not that an uncommon patronymic because “Iosif” is not that an uncommon a name.
It is common in history for a royal court to raise the princes and marry the daughters of their enemies. The Persians (Story of Esther), Egyptians (Moshe), Greeks (Helen), Romans (Herold), Mongols, Ottomans did this to name a few. Integration, hostages, aslyum politics are a few reasons.
Stalins daughter is recent example in long tradition.
Children of high-ranking nomenclature didn't want to live in "their" country and they don't want now.<p>Most of Russian parliament members, high-ranking officers and oligarchs keep their families in London or Miami. Nobody in their right mind wants to live in Russia.<p>That's where theories arise that Russia is just a cryptocolony of the UK and been that for 100 years.