box 1, folder 1-2
Interview notes
1994 March
Scope and Contents note
Two notebooks with Secrest's handwritten notes regarding recorded interviews with Svetlana Allilueva (Lana Peters), organized
by tape number. See Sound recordings section for information regarding use copies of the interview tapes.
box 1, folder 3
Clippings
1967-1994
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper and magazine clippings of articles on Russia, Stalin, and Svetlana Allilueva. Includes one article in Russian.
Collected writings of Svetlana Allilueva
1984-1993
box 1, folder 4
"A Book for Granddaughters,"
1989
Scope and Contents note
Typescript of an unpublished manuscript with edits throughout. Originally written in Russian and translated by Allilueva.
box 1, folder 5
Curriculum vitae
1993 October 29
Scope and Contents note
Typed copy of Allilueva's curriculum vitae created for Secrest. Includes handwritten notes from "L. P." (Lana Peters).
box 1, folder 6
The Faraway Music
1984
Scope and Contents note
Contains a photocopy of Allilueva's third book, sold only in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, in which she discusses disappointment
with her American life after defecting from the USSR. Includes notes and annotations throughout. Also included is a copy of
an article from
The New York Times Book Review titled, "After the Crackup: Two Versions of Soviet History, Written with Anger and Enthusiasm."
box 1, folder 7
"Statement of Svetlana Allilueva Made in Writing in the USA Embassy on March 6, 1967, in Delhi, India,"
1984
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of an excerpt from
The Faraway Music.
Works translated by Svetlana Allilueva
1994
box 1, folder 8
"Josef Is Infinitely Kind: Diary of Maria Onisimovna Svanidze,"
Scope and Contents note
An unpublished English translation of Maria Svanidze's diary, with edits and notes throughout. Maria Svanidze was the wife
of Alexander Semyonovich Svanidze, a personal friend of Stalin's and brother of Stalin's first wife, Ekaterine "Kato" Svanidze.
In 1937, Alexander Svanidze was arrested by Stalin and shot four years later while imprisoned.
box 1, folder 9
"To Nadezhda Sergeevna Allilueva Personally from Stalin," typescript
Scope and Contents note
Typescript of English translations of correspondence between Stalin and Nadezhda Allilueva, Svetlana Allilueva's mother, written
between 1928 and 1931. Also included is a photocopy of an article from a Russian newspaper with annotations.
Photographs
1929-1994
Scope and Contents note
Contains various black-and-white images of Svetlana Allilueva and her family. Envelopes A-E are located in Folder 10 and envelopes
F-H in Folder 11. All images are copy prints with the exception of the photographs of Allilueva in London. Negatives of all
images are also included.
box 1, folder 10, envelope A-B
Allilueva in London
1994 March
Scope and Contents note
Includes 11 prints plus duplicates and negatives.
box 1, folder 10, envelope C
Carolina Til (housekeeper) and Alexandra Bychkova (nanny)
undated
box 1, folder 10, envelope C
Gas mask drill at school
1935
Scope and Contents note
Envelope reads, "Last one in the front line is Gerchikov."
box 1, folder 10, envelope C
Summer vacation with S.M. Kirov near Sochi
1934
box 1, folder 10, envelope C
Allilueva with Katya (daughter) in the "House on the Embankment" apartment in Moscow
1965
box 1, folder 10, envelope C
box 1, folder 10, envelope C
Allilueva with Stalin in Sochi
1934
box 1, folder 10, envelope C
Allilueva (age 3) at Zubalova near Moscow
1929
box 1, folder 10, envelope D
Allilueva and brother
1931
box 1, folder 10, envelope D
"Kirov at mother's coffin,"
1932
box 1, folder 10, envelope D
Allilueva in classroom
undated
box 1, folder 10, envelope D
Allilueva on lion at Lipki
undated
box 1, folder 10, envelope D
Allilueva as a child, in coat and beret
undated
box 1, folder 10, envelope D
Kumar Brajesh Singh in Moscow
1965
box 1, folder 10, envelope D
Olga (daughter) in Allilueva's apartment
undated
box 1, folder 10, envelope E
Olga as a teenager
undated
box 1, folder 10, envelope E
Allilueva with Olga (6 months) in Scottsdale
1971 November
box 1, folder 10, envelope E
Allilueva with William Wesley Peters the day before their marriage
1970 April
box 1, folder 10, envelope E
Portrait of Allilueva in Princeton, New Jersey
1968 June
box 1, folder 10, envelope E
Olga and Allilueva
circa 1993-1994
box 1, folder 10, envelope E
Allilueva with Katya and Joseph (son)
circa 1953-1954
box 1, folder 10, envelope E
Nadezhda Allilueva's funeral
1932
box 1, folder 11, envelope F
Allilueva (age 12) at Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo
circa 1937-1938
box 1, folder 11, envelope F
Svetlana and her best friend, Raya Levina
undated
box 1, folder 11, envelope F
Anna Allilueva (aunt)
undated
box 1, folder 11, envelope F
Allilueva (age 16)
undated
box 1, folder 11, envelope F
Allilueva on a bicycle at Kuntsevo
circa 1936-1937
box 1, folder 11, envelope F
Vyacheslav Molotov and Allilueva in the forest
undated
box 1, folder 11, envelope F
Pavel Alliluyev (uncle)
undated
box 1, folder 11, envelope G
Portrait of Allilueva
1954
box 1, folder 11, envelope G
Ketevan Geladze (Stalin's mother)
undated
box 1, folder 11, envelope G
Portrait of Allilueva
1943
box 1, folder 11, envelope G
Nadezhda Allilueva (age 30)
undated
box 1, folder 11, envelope G
Maria Svanidze and others
circa 1930-1931
box 1, folder 11, envelope G
Allilueva with S.I. Hayakawa Scottsdale, Arizona
1972
box 1, folder 11, envelope G
Nadezhda Allilueva and baby
undated
box 1, folder 11, envelope H
Svetlana with Emmanuel d'Astier near Fribourg, Switzerland
1967 April
box 1, folder 11, envelope H
Stalin and Nadezhda Allilueva at family picnic
1929
box 1, folder 11, envelope H
Stalin with Allilueva in Sochi
1934
box 1, folder 11, envelope H
Vasily Stalin (brother, age 13) and Allilueva (age 8)
1934
Sound recordings
1994
Scope and Contents note
Consists of microcassettes as well as compact cassette and compact disc copies of interviews with Svetlana Allilueva, conducted
by Meryle Secrest in March of 1994. The recordings have been digitized (see use copy reference numbers below) and are approximately
one hour each.
box 2
Tape 1
March 10
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007768
box 2
Tape 2
March 10
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007769
box 2
Tape 3
March 10
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007770
box 2
Tape 4
March 10-11
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007771
box 2
Tape 5
March 10-11
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007772
box 2
Tape 6
March 11
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007773
box 2
Tape 7
March 14
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007774
box 2
Tape 8
March 14
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007793
box 2
Tape 9
March 16
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007775
box 2
Tape 10
March 16
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007776
box 2
Tape 11
March 16
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007777
box 2
Tape 12
March 17
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007778
box 2
Tape 13
March 17
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007779
box 2
Tape 14
March 17
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007780
box 2
Tape 15
March 18
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007781
box 2
Tape 16
March 18
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007782
box 2
Tape 17
March 18
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007783
box 2
Tape 18
March 21
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007784
box 2
Tape 19
March 21
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007785
box 2
Tape 20
March 21
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007786
box 2
Tape 21
March 23
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007787
box 2
Tape 22
March 23
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007788
box 2
Tape 23
March 24
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007789
box 2
Tape 24
March 25
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007790
box 2
Tape 25
March 25
General note
Use copy reference number: 2001c50_a_0007791
box 2
Compact sound cassettes
Scope and Contents note
Contains one compact cassette copy of each microcassette.
box 3
CD sound discs
Scope and Contents note
Includes two CD copies of each microcassette.