Word: alliluiev
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...stinking hovel of a Tiflis locksmith, Sergei Alliluiev, a brown-eyed girl was born in 1902. As an infant she grew accustomed to the furtive visits of a tall, violent, smoldering-eyed man who talked Revolution to her father, receiving in exchange deftly filed pass keys and professional advice on how to handle combination locks...
First Lady Nadya is the younger daughter of one Sergei Alliluiev, a locksmith. As a little girl she looked up to Josef Stalin, a strong, violent, darkly brooding visitor who not only broke locks but held up banks and dynamited safes to secure money for Comrade Lenin and the Communist Party. Romantic, this desperate character had, however, a wife and a son only six years younger than the locksmith's daughter...
...first Mrs. Stalin, Ekaterina, died of pneumonia before the 1917 Revolution. In 1919 Josef Stalin, not yet Dictator but already high in the Soviet Government, made a dazzling visit to the still humble shop and home of his old friend Sergei Alliluiev...
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