A novel-version of “The Only …” tells the story of Stalin’s wife. A dramatic narrative against those terrible, strange, and still not fully understood years is threaded with a delicate love line—crushing passion and the Tyrant’s extraordinary tenderness.
Olga Trifonova convincingly shows that the rumors about other women of Joseph Vissarionovich have no foundation. In his life, there was only her…
This could have been a classic “love story.” Nadezhda Alliluyeva saw him for the first time when she was 12 and he was 34. A young, charming, something like a Caucasian dzhigit with a heroic fate—Stalin had just escaped from exile. And Nadia fell in love. At 16, she becomes his wife.
All her life, Alliluyeva is torn between loving her husband and understanding his terrible essence. She tries to break out of this bewitched circle, but each time love for Stalin proves stronger. When the struggle with herself becomes unbearable, Nadia ends her life by suicide. She was only 31 years old…