Nafejda Allilueva Second wife of I.V. Stalin Date of Birth: 09.09.1901 Country: Russia

Biography of Nadezhda Alliluyeva

Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva (1901-1932) was the second wife of I.V. Stalin. She was born in Baku, in the family of a revolutionary named S.Ya. Alliluyev. Stalin knew the Alliluyev family since the late 1890s. According to family legend, Stalin saved Nadezhda when she fell into the sea from the embankment in Baku in 1903. They met again in March 1917 in Petrograd when Stalin returned from Siberian exile. In the same year, Nadezhda joined the party and started working as a secretary-typist in the Sovnarkom. In 1918, Stalin was sent to Tsaritsyn as a special representative for food supply on the Eastern Front. Nadezhda accompanied him as part of Stalin's secretariat, along with her father. During this trip, they got to know each other better. They got married in 1918, and Stalin's proposal was delivered to the 17-year-old Nadezhda by N.I. Bukharin.

Nadezhda Alliluyeva later worked in the secretariat of V.I. Lenin and collaborated in the editorial office of the journal "Revolution and Culture" and the newspaper "Pravda". In 1921, she was unexpectedly expelled from the party "for public passivity and adherence to anarcho-syndicalism," and despite Lenin's request, she was reinstated only in 1924. From 1929 to 1932, Alliluyeva studied at the Industrial Academy in the Artificial Fiber Department.

She gave birth to her son Vasily in 1921 and her daughter Svetlana in 1926. N. Razgon describes Alliluyeva as a modest, kind, and deeply unhappy woman. There were rumors about Stalin's mistreatment of her and their children. On the night of November 9, 1932, N. Alliluyeva tragically ended her life with a gunshot. The official cause of death was reported as appendicitis. Stalin did not attend her funeral and supposedly never visited her grave. However, there are claims that he secretly visited her grave at the Novodevichy Cemetery on several occasions.

Nadezhda Alliluyeva left no memoirs, but a number of her letters have been preserved in archives. In one of her letters to M. Kalinin in 1921, she complained about the limited food rations and the special treatment given to Stalin, requesting an increase in the number of chickens and other food items. Despite the various speculations and rumors surrounding her death, the true circumstances remain unknown.