Kirusya, Stalin's niece
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Kirusya, Stalin's niece
29.99 €
Kirusya suddenly said wistfully, "I'm so sick of all this. Most of my interviews are distorted. I say one thing, and God knows what gets published. My relatives also try their best, spinning tall tales. And how could they know what really happened to us, the Alliluyevs, if they were either born much later or were so young they couldn't remember anything! I'm the eldest child in our family, and so, unlike them, I don't just remember events from the late 1920s, not to mention the 1930s and 1940s. I saw it, I heard it, and I'll never forget it!"
Thus arose the idea to record the memoirs of Kira Pavlovna Alliluyeva-Politkovskaya (1919-2009), niece of I.V. Stalin. An unexpected discovery in the spring of 2025—Kirusi's diary and her stories, like signs of fate—forced me to sit down with this book and immerse myself in an era that still raises many questions, some of which remain unanswered.
Among its characters are Alliluyev and his children—Pavel, Anna, Fyodor, Nadezhda—and their families, comrades, acquaintances—longtime and casual, friends and foes: Lenin, Stalin, Svanidze, Kirov, Ordzhonikidze, Voroshilov, Beria, Redens, Shaposhnikov, Bernes, Gelovani, Romm, Kapler, Gagarin, Raikin, Vysotsky, and many others.
Thus arose the idea to record the memoirs of Kira Pavlovna Alliluyeva-Politkovskaya (1919-2009), niece of I.V. Stalin. An unexpected discovery in the spring of 2025—Kirusi's diary and her stories, like signs of fate—forced me to sit down with this book and immerse myself in an era that still raises many questions, some of which remain unanswered.
Among its characters are Alliluyev and his children—Pavel, Anna, Fyodor, Nadezhda—and their families, comrades, acquaintances—longtime and casual, friends and foes: Lenin, Stalin, Svanidze, Kirov, Ordzhonikidze, Voroshilov, Beria, Redens, Shaposhnikov, Bernes, Gelovani, Romm, Kapler, Gagarin, Raikin, Vysotsky, and many others.
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- All books in the series Biography of the era