The princess who tried to escape …

… Biography review: ‘Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva,’ by Rosemary Sullivan | Dallas Morning News.

… Sullivan does an admirable job of researching, organizing and contextualizing the events of Alliluyeva’s bewildering life in a highly accessible style. We follow young Svetlana from the sheltered world of the Kremlin, where she issues orders to a doting Stalin and his henchmen; to her doomed first love affair and her discovery of her mother’s suicide (and her father’s crimes); through a series of disastrous marriages; to her conversion to Christianity, and the births of two children. Along the way she has brief affairs with dissidents who treat her as a trophy, before finally finding happiness in marriage to an Indian diplomat — who promptly dies.