Word: nadya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faints, in an effort to free him of cowardice. His wife protects his delusions, nurses him, lies to her children about him. His sister Therese, once a great tragic actress, crippled with rheumatism, hobbles about on crutches. In a remote section there is a fiery great-grandmother. Nadya Séverin, a Russian princess waited on by an idiot boy but occasionally escaping downstairs under the delusion that she is flogging some serfs-a character so bewilderingly obscure that it would not be surprising if she should mount a moon-bound broomstick...
...keen nose has Correspondent Barnes for the family that Dictator Stalin so scrupulously keeps out of sight. Two years ago, comparatively new to Moscow, he flushed Stalin's second wife, Vasya's mother, Nadya Alliluieva, young, shy and serious, in an industrial school studying to become manager of a synthetic silk factory. When she died last November of peritonitis, appendicitis or poison (she was supposed to have tasted everything prepared for her husband several hours before he ate it), she arose from public anonymity in a magnificent Moscow funeral. Last week Correspondent Barnes stood at the door...
Most Russians have never seen either Mrs. Stalin or her picture (TIME, April 11). The Soviet Press has not printed her name (Nadya Alliluieva). When she married Dictator Stalin 13 years ago that fact was neither published in Russia nor discovered at the time by foreign newshawks in Moscow...
...Name: Nadya Alliluieva
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...