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312. Sergeev and Glushik, Besedy o Staline, 41. Zubalovo consisted of different buildings, the largest was divided between Mikoyan’s large family and others; Stalin got the smaller (still ample) dacha. Also there were two servants’ buildings (Sergei Alliluyev built a machine shop in the servants’ block).

313. “Kirov and Molotov danced a Russian handkerchief dance with their partners,” Yekaterina Voroshilova would later recall. “Mikoyan hovered around Nadezhda Sergeyevna [Alliluyeva] and asked her to dance the lezginka with him. Mikoyan danced very quickly and with great energy . . . Nadezhda Sergeyevna was timid and shy, just as she always was. She covered her face with her hand.” Voroshilova’s husband danced the Ukrainian hopak and then a polka (“he was particularly good at it”). Kun, Stalin, 226 (citing RGASPI, f. 74, op. 2, d. 42: diary written 1950s).

314. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 786, l. 123–4 (July 10, 1932). At the same time, Galina Serebryakova (the third and final wife of Sokolnikov) saw Nadya in 1932 waiting at a bus stop jammed with people at the corner of Vozdvizhenka and Mokhovaya. Serebriakova, “Smerch,” 253–4. According to Kamenev’s daughter-in-law Galina Kravchenko, Nadya went to church; no other source confirms this. Vasil’eva, Kremlevskie zheny, 156.

315. Deviatov et al., Blizhniaia, 48 (citing family archive of A. N. Shefov).

316. One fellow student recalled her as full of life and sparkle that Nov. 1932; his account portrays her marriage to Stalin as widely known. Tokaev, Betrayal of an Ideal, 160–1. Tokaev, an Ossetian born (1909) Gokhi Tokati, studied at a Moscow military academy and would seize a chance to defect on a trip to Germany in 1947.

317. “In Moscow I determinedly try not to have anything to do with anyone,” she had written to Maria Svanidze (“Auntie Marusya”), back in 1926. “Sometimes it is strange: so many years not to have acquaintances, close friends. But that obviously depends on character.” Nadya added that she felt closer to the non-party people. “The many new prejudices are terrible. If you don’t work, you’re a ‘hussy’ [‘baba’].” She insisted: “It’s absolutely necessary to have a profession, so that you don’t have to be a gopher for anybody, as normally happens in secretarial work.” RGASPI, f. 44, op. 1, d. 1, l. 417; Montefiore, Court of the Red Tsar, 7; Radzinskii, Stalin, 297–8. Maria Svanidze (née Korona) had been born in Tiflis in 1899 of Jewish extraction, divorced in 1918, and three years later married Nadya’s brother Alexander “Alyosha” Svanidze. She studied at the conservatory in Georgia and in the 1920s sang in the Tiflis opera. See also RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 666.

318. Cherviakova, “Pesochnye chasy,” no. 5: 83. “In Iosif’s presence,” Gogua would later claim, “Nadya resembled the pitiful type [fakir] who in the circus walks barefoot on broken glass smiling at the public. . . . She never knew what would happen next, the next explosion. He was an utter boor. The only creature that softened him was Svetlana . . . Vaska always annoyed him.” Gogua, “Semeinye istorii.” “Nadya repeatedly told me with a sigh,” wrote the defector Boris Bazhanov, who knew her in the 1920s. “‘He’s been silent for three days now. He speaks to no one, he does not respond when someone addressed him. He is a particularly difficult person.’” Bazhanov, Vospominaniia, 154.

319. Svetlana claimed she had received only one letter from her mother, and it was a scolding. Alliluyeva, Twenty Letters, 96. See also Sullivan, Stalin’s Daughter, 21 (citing interview with Chrese Evans, formerly Olga Peters), 27 (interview with Svetlana, London, 1994, Meryle Secrest Collection, audio recording, group 2, tape 28, HIA).

320. Kun, Stalin, 201 (citing interviews from the 1960s–70s with László Pollacsek). See also the hearsay in the secret police: Orlov, Secret History, 315, 318; Orlov, Tainaia istoriia, 303–4.

321. Vladimir Alliluyev (son of Anna Alliluyeva and Redens) wrote that she suffered “ossification of the cranial sutures. The disease began to progress, accompanied by bouts of depression and headaches . . . She traveled to Germany for consultations with the leading German neuropathologists . . . Nadezhda threatened to commit suicide more than once.” Alliluev, Khronika odnoi sem’i, 30. Svetlana thought it was schizophrenia. There is hearsay that Nadya had an abortion at one point, causing gynecological complications. Montefiore, Court of the Red Tsar, 12.

322. Alliluev, Khronika odnoi sem’i, 33. See also Shatunovskaia, Zhizn’ v Kremle, 188.

323. Murin, Iosif Stalin v ob”iatiakh, 15–6 (APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 1549, l. 40–40ob.: March 12, 1931).

324. Kun, Stalin, 204 (citing RGASPI, f. 668, op. 1, d. 15).