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Svetlana Alliluyeva

1926 - 2011

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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (née Stalina; 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 became an international sensation when 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 reinstated. She was Stalin's last surviving child. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Svetlana Alliluyeva is the 340th most popular writer (down from 261st in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Russia (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Writer.

Svetlana Alliluyeva is most famous for being the daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. She defected to the United States in 1967 and wrote a memoir, "Twenty Letters to a Friend."

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Among writers, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 340 out of 7,302. Before her are Michael Ende, Saadi Shirazi, Christine de Pizan, Mario Puzo, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Ève Curie. After her are Maurice Leblanc, Arion, Archilochus, Mikhail Lermontov, J. D. Vance, and Amos Oz.

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Among people born in 1926, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 18. Before her are Ben Roy Mottelson, Vasily Arkhipov, Donald A. Glaser, Klaus Kinski, René Goscinny, and Sathya Sai Baba. After her are Nuon Chea, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Andrzej Wajda, Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, and Irwin Rose. Among people deceased in 2011, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 15. Before her are Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Cesária Évora, Peter Falk, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sócrates, and Sathya Sai Baba. After her are Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Simon van der Meer, Rudolf Mössbauer, Ágota Kristóf, Joe Frazier, and Herbert A. Hauptman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 111 out of 3,761. Before her are Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), and Tokhtamysh (1342). After her are Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Anatoly Karpov (1951), and Vladimir Komarov (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Svetlana Alliluyeva ranks 14. Before her are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Ivan Turgenev (1818), and Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861). After her are Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Sergei Yesenin (1895), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), and Ivan Bunin (1870).

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