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Authors: Rosemary Sullivan

26
. Ibid.
27
. Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, July 18, 2012.
28
. Author’s interview with Vanessa Thomas, London, June 25, 2013.
29
. Inigo Thomas, “Tea with Stalin’s Daughter,”
LRB
blog, Dec. 1, 2011, www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/12/01/inigo-thomas/tea-with-stalin%E2%80%99s-daughter/.
30
. Alex Prud’Homme and Liz Corcoran,
People
, Dec. 10, 1992.
31
. Author’s interview with Raoul Ortiz, Mexico City, Dec. 9, 2013.
32
. Ibid.
33
. Author’s interview with Laurence and Linda Kelly, London, June 24, 2013.
34
. Author’s interview with Pamela Egremont, London, June 25, 2013.
35
. Author’s interview with Rosamond Richardson, Saffron Walden, June 22, 2013.
36
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 18, and group 2, tape 21, HIA.
37
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group

1, tape 18, HIA.

38
. Rosamond Richardson interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, Saffron Walden, 1991, tape 4, PC, Richardson.
39
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 2, tape 22, HIA.
40
. Author’s interview with Rosamond Richardson, Saffron Walden, June 22, 2013.
41
. Ibid.
42
. Kyra Alliluyeva,
Plemiannitsa Stalina
[Stalin’s Niece] (Moscow: Vagrius, 2006), 345–51.
43
. Author’s interview with Rosamond Richardson, Saffron Walden, June 22, 2013.
44
. Letters: “Inside Stalin’s Family,”
London Review of Books
, Mar. 25, 1993.
45
. Alliluyeva,
Stalin’s Niece
, 344.
46
. Author’s interview with Mary Burkett, Penrith, UK, June 20–21, 2013.
47
. Ben Verinder,
I Felt Like an Adventure: A Life of Mary Burkett
(Langley Park, Durham, UK: Memoir Club, 2008).
48
. Letter to Mary Burkett, Feb. 10, 1997, PC, Burkett.
49
. Letter to Mary Burkett, Mar. 4, 1996, PC, Burkett.
50
. David Jones, “Revealed,” (London)
Daily Mail
, Feb. 15, 1996.

CHAPTER 35: MY DEAR, THEY HAVEN’T CHANGED A BIT

1
. Letter to Mary Burkett, Sept. 9, 1995, PC, Burkett.
2
. Melissa Akin, “Stalin’s Daughter Shuns Public Attention,”
Las Vegas Sun
, June 13, 1996.
3
. Svetlana Alliluyeva, “Sorry, Dear Relative,” 1996, review of Vladimir Fedorovitch Alliluyev,
Chronicle of a Family
, Kennan Papers, box 2, file 3, PUL.
4
. Galina Alliluyeva, wife of Leonid, also believed that someone else inserted material into Vladimir’s memoir, possibly as a condition of publication. Author’s interview with Leonid and Galina Alliluyeva, Moscow, May 17, 2013.
5
. Alliluyeva, “Sorry, Dear Relative.”
6
. Letter to Philippa Hill, Feb. 18, 1996, PC, Hill.
7
. Richard Beeston, “Stalin’s Daughter Seeks Sanctuary by Taking the Veil,” (London)
Times
, Feb. 8, 1996.
8
. Letter to Philippa Hill, Mar. 2, 1996, PC, Hill.
9
. David Jones, “Revealed: Why Stalin’s Daughter Has Chosen to Lead a Life of Poverty in a Remote English Village,” (London)
Daily Mail
, Feb. 15, 1996.
10
. Letter to Philippa Hill, Mar. 2, 1996, PC, Hill.
11
. Undated letter [1998] to Philippa Hill, PC, Hill. Some believed that Russia’s state security services, the FSB, murdered Starovoitova because she was using her influence with Boris Yeltsin to oppose the appointment of Yevgeny Primakov, a former KGB general, as prime minister.
12
. Letter to Mary Burkett, Mar. 6, 1997, PC, Burkett.
13
. Letter to Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky, Aug. 2, 1997, PC, Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky.
14
. Author’s interview with Mary Burkett, Penrith, UK, June 21, 2013.
15
. Letter to Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky, Aug. 2, 1997, PC, Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky.

CHAPTER 36: FINAL RETURN

1
. Letter to Robert Rayle, Nov. 21, 1997, PC, Rayle.
2
. Letter to Mary Burkett, Nov. 17, 1997, PC, Burkett.
3
. Letter to Robert Rayle, Nov. 24, 1999, PC, Rayle.
4
. Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, July 17, 2012.
5
. Author’s interview with Kathy Rossing, Lone Rock, WI, Nov. 27, 2013.
6
. Letter to Thomas Miller, Nov. 18, 2000, PC, Miller.
7
. Letter to Thomas Miller, Sept. 6, 2003, PC, Miller.
8
. Author’s interview with Kathy Rossing, Lone Rock, WI, Nov. 27, 2013.
9
. Ibid.
10
. Author’s interview with Michael Coyne, Washington, DC, Dec. 17, 2013.
11
. Ibid.
12
. Letter to Ramona Rayle, Oct. 13, 2006, PC, Rayle.
13
. Author’s interview with Michael Coyne, Washington, DC, Dec. 17, 2013.
14
. Ibid.
15
. Letter to Mary Burkett, Aug. 12, 2005, PC, Burkett.
16
. Letter to Robert Rayle, June 23, 1997, PC, Rayle.
17
. Author’s interview with Thomas Miller, Anchorage, AK, Sept. 28, 2013.
18
. Letter to Thomas Miller, Mar. 14, 2000, PC, Miller.
19
. Letter to Robert Rayle, Jan. 24, 2000, PC, Rayle.
20
. Author’s interview with Michael Coyne, Washington, DC, Dec. 17, 2013.
21
. Letter to Robert Rayle, Sept. 30, 2000, PC, Rayle.
22
. Letter to Robert Rayle, Jan. 24, 2000, PC, Rayle.
23
. Russian Federation Law on Introducing Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation (the 2006 Russian NCO Law) imposed burdensome reporting requirements on Russian NCOs (NGOs) with severe penalties for noncompliance, as well as on foreign NCOs operating in Russia.
24
. Letter to Robert Rayle, Jan. 24, 2000, PC, Rayle.
25
. Author’s interview with Kathy Rossing, Lone Rock, WI, Nov. 27, 2013.
26
. Letter to Robert Rayle, Feb. 11, 2000, PC, Rayle.
27
. Michael Coyne noted that the blog posts at the time of Svetlana’s death still referred to her wealth. Author’s interview with Michael Coyne, Washington, DC, Dec. 17, 2013.
28
. Letter to Robert Rayle, Jan. 25, 2000, PC, Rayle.
29
. Letter to Annelise Kennan, Sept. 13, 1986, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.
30
. Author’s interview with Marie Anderson, Spring Green, WI, Aug. 28, 2012.
31
. Letter to Robert and Ramona Rayle, June 19, 2006, PC, Rayle.
32
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 142.
33
. David Jones, “Still Running from Stalin,” (London)
Daily Mail
Online, Apr. 23, 2010, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268374/Still-running-Stalin-Tyrants-daughter-84-tells-tragic-life-escaping-legacy-new-home-sleepy-U-S-farming-town.html.
34
. Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 28, 2013.
35
. Certification of Recordation, Feb. 23, 2010, Washington Copyright Office; and correspondence to author from Nicholas Thompson, June 8, 2014.
36
. Letter to Linda Kelly, Dec. 14, 2003, PC, Kelly.
37
. Letter to Mary Burkett, May 19, 2011, PC, Burkett.
38
. Letter to Philippa Hill, May 6, 2011, PC, Hill.
39
. Author’s interview with Kathy Rossing, Lone Rock, WI, Nov. 27, 2013.
40
. Ibid.
41
. Ibid.
42
. Letter to Chrese Evans, undated 2011. A few months earlier, Svetlana Alliluyeva gave this letter to her lawyer with instructions to give it to her daughter after her death. Letter to author from Chrese Evans, Jan. 1, 2015, PC, Chrese Evans.

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