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...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...
...Priest Troitski, to bring him to justice. At Pskoff the police heard tales. Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles. One teardrop, applied to a wound, healed it. By virtue of the tears, Lydia Belskaya was cured of scrofula, Nadya Kolkova of a chronic abscess, Natasha Arcipova of paralysis. Thousands of tears had been efficaciously shed. The police-themselves but humble Bolsheviks-trembled to lay hands upon the holy man who conducted so holy a shrine. But they feared Moscow more. They arrested Troitski, and Troitski confessed...