Word: olga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last October Svetlana returned to the Soviet Union, taking her American-born daughter Olga, 13, with her. Once again her action could be seen as symbolic, signifying, perhaps, some basic failure of Western values. She told a press conference in Moscow that she had not known "one single day" of freedom in the West. She declared that she had come back to the Soviet Union to rejoin the two children she had left behind in 1967. But her earlier denunciations of the Bolshevik revolution ("a fatal, tragic mistake"), her father ("a moral and spiritual monster"), the Soviet system ("profoundly corrupt...
Svetlana certainly needed friends. When she left her husband, she took with her a new daughter, Olga Margedant Peters, born May 21, 1971. Svetlana, who would be granted U.S. citizenship only in 1978, felt alone in a strange country and seemed particularly vulnerable to the stresses of late motherhood. Having gained custody of Olga by the terms of her 1973 divorce from Peters, she refused to allow the child to visit her father at Taliesin West. Thus thwarted, the busy architect rarely went to see Olga and, though he corresponded with her, remained a more remote figure than Olga...
...Olga is the center of my existence," Svetlana often said. She lavished much warmth on the child, but all too often Svetlana's ungovernable temper got in the way of her loving intentions. Wherever mother and daughter lived in the U.S., people remember, Svetlana frequently struck Olga. When the child was five, an acquaintance in Carlsbad, Calif., recalls, "Olga had been playing next door with a friend, and Mrs. Peters was not particularly happy about it for some reason. When she called her home, Olga came running, fell, skinned her knee and cried. I picked her up to comfort...
...will be impossible for a 13-year-old American girl like Olga Peters to find comfort or happiness in the Soviet Union. Perhaps she will be clever enough to find her way to America, as her mother...
...request of Svetlana's former husband, American Architect William Wesley Peters, the U.S. embassy in Moscow has pressed the Soviets for assurances that the couple's daughter Olga willingly went to Moscow with her mother. Svetlana dismissed the inquiry, noting that "as long as she is a schoolgirl, she will act according to my wishes." Olga speaks no Russian, and reportedly her mother wants to enroll her in a special English-language school...