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Douglas Martin

World

Stalin’s Daughter Dies at 85

From a childhood in the Kremlin to a trip to New Delhi carrying the ashes of her Indian Communist lover, defection at the U.S. Embassy… “finally to decades of obscurity, wandering and poverty.”

Douglas Martin New York Times Nov 2011 10min Permalink