Editing Nadezhda Alliluyeva (section)

==Death==
===November 1932===
[[File:Nadezhda Alliluyeva Tomb 20160930.jpg|thumb|Alliluyeva's tomb in [[Novodevichy Cemetery]]]]

In November 1932, Alliluyeva was only a few weeks away from finishing her course at the academy.<ref>{{harvnb|Kun|2003|p=204}}</ref> Alongside her compatriots, she marched in the 7 November parade commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the [[October Revolution]], while Stalin and the children watched her from the top of [[Lenin's Mausoleum]] on [[Red Square]].<ref name="Kotkin 110">{{harvnb|Kotkin|2017|p=110}}</ref> After the parade finished, Alliluyeva complained of a headache, so the children went to their dacha outside the city while she returned to their residence in the Kremlin.<ref name="Kotkin 110"/> The next evening both Alliluyeva and Stalin attended a dinner hosted at the Kremlin apartment of [[Kliment Voroshilov]], a close friend of Stalin's and a member of the [[Politburo]], to commemorate the Revolution. Though she preferred to dress modestly in a style more in line with the Bolshevik ideology, Alliluyeva dressed up for the occasion.<ref name="Montefiore 1"/> There was much drinking during the dinner, which had several high-ranking Bolsheviks and their spouses in attendance, and Alliluyeva and Stalin began to argue, which was not an unusual occurrence at these gatherings.<ref name="Montefiore 2003 12"/> It has been suggested that Stalin was also flirting with Galina Yegorova, the young wife of [[Alexander Yegorov (soldier)|Alexander Yegorov]], and there was recent discussion that he had been with a hairdresser who worked in the Kremlin.<ref name="Kotkin 110"/><ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|p=3}}</ref>

Things became even worse between the two, and Montefiore suggested that when Stalin "toasted the destruction of the Enemies of the State", he saw Alliluyeva did not raise her glass as well and became annoyed.<ref name="Montefiore 15">{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|p=15}}</ref> Stalin supposedly threw something at her (listed variously as an orange peel, cigarette butt, or piece of bread){{Efn|Sources differ on what specifically was thrown.<ref>{{harvnb|Kotkin|2017|p=936, note 330}}</ref>}} to get her attention, before finally calling out to her, which only further maddened Alliluyeva, who abruptly left the dinner and went outside; Zhemchuzhina followed after her to ensure someone else was there with her.<ref name="Montefiore 15"/> The two women walked outside within the [[Moscow Kremlin Wall|Kremlin Wall]], discussing the events of the night, agreeing that Stalin was drunk, and talking about Alliluyeva's issues with Stalin's supposed affairs.<ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|p=16}}</ref> The two parted ways and Alliluyeva returned to her residence.<ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|p=17}}</ref>

Events after that are not clear, but some time early in the morning of 9 November, Alliluyeva, alone in her room, shot herself in the heart, [[Suicide|killing herself]] instantly.<ref>{{harvnb|Kotkin|2017|pp=110–111}}</ref> Alliluyeva used a small [[Mauser]] pistol only recently given to her by her brother Pavel Alliluyev, who brought it as a gift from his time in Berlin. She had asked him to do so, noting that it could be dangerous alone in the Kremlin at times, and she wanted protection.<ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|p=18}}</ref>

===Funeral and burial===
[[File:Никольская башня Новодевичьего монастыря, вид с памятником на могиле Надежды Аллилуевой (Сталиной).jpg|thumb|Bust of Alliluyeva on her tombstone|292x292px]]

Stalin and the other leaders decided it would not be appropriate to say Alliluyeva had killed herself, so when her death was announced the next day, the cause of death was given as [[appendicitis]].<ref name="Sullivan 53">{{harvnb|Sullivan|2015|p=53}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|p=108}}</ref> The children were not told the true nature of her death.<ref name="Sullivan 53"/> To help keep the true nature of Alliluyeva's death from being released, staff who worked in the Kremlin at the time were either dismissed or arrested, though efforts to suppress this information continued for several years afterwards.<ref>{{harvnb|Merridale|2013|pp=320–321}}</ref> Accounts of contemporaries and Stalin's letters indicate that he was much disturbed by the event.<ref>{{harvnb|Rieber|2001|pp=1662–1663}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|pp=19–20}}</ref>

''[[Pravda]]'', the official party newspaper, announced Alliluyeva's death in its 10 November edition. This came as a surprise to many in the Soviet Union, as it also was the first public acknowledgement that Stalin had been married. Her body, in an open casket, was placed in an upper floor of the [[GUM (department store)|GUM department store]], opposite Red Square and the Kremlin. Government and party officials came to visit, but the public was not allowed.<ref name="Kotkin 111">{{harvnb|Kotkin|2017|p=111}}</ref> The funeral was held on 12 November, with both Stalin and Vasily attending.<ref name="Kotkin 111"/><ref name="Sullivan 52">{{harvnb|Sullivan|2015|p=52}}</ref> Stalin took part in the procession to the cemetery afterwards, which involved a {{convert|6|km|mi|adj=on}} march from GUM to the [[Novodevichy Cemetery]], though it is not clear if he walked the entire route.<ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|pp=110–111}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Kotkin|2017|pp=111–112}}</ref> In her memoirs, Svetlana claimed that Stalin never again visited the grave.<ref name="Sullivan 52"/>

===Aftermath===
Alliluyeva's death had a profound impact on her children and family. Her daughter Svetlana only found out her mother had killed herself when reading an English journal article in 1942. The revelation came as a shock to her, and profoundly altered her relationship with Stalin, who had maintained the lie for a decade.<ref>{{harvnb|Sullivan|2015|pp=103–104}}</ref> She remained distant from Stalin until his death and took up her mother's maiden name in 1957 to further distance herself from him.<ref>{{harvnb|Sullivan|2015|pp=3, 217}}</ref> She ultimately [[defection|defected]] from the Soviet Union in 1967 and died in the United States in 2011.<ref>{{harvnb|Sullivan|2015|pp=1, 622}}</ref>

Her son Vasily was also greatly affected: although Alliluyeva had not played a major role in raising her children, she still showed interest in their well-being. After her death, Stalin doted upon Svetlana but virtually ignored Vasily, who began to drink from a young age and ultimately died of [[Health effects of alcohol|alcohol-related issues]] in 1962.<ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|pp=120–121}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|p=669}}</ref>

Alliluyeva's father, Sergei, became very withdrawn after her death. He wrote memoirs which were published in 1946 after heavy editing. He died of [[stomach cancer]] in 1945.<ref>{{harvnb|Richardson|1993|p=188}}</ref> Alliluyeva's mother, Olga, lived until 1951, dying of a [[heart attack]].<ref>{{harvnb|Sullivan|2015|p=210}}</ref> Several of Alliluyeva's relatives were arrested and imprisoned in 1940, including her sister Anna, and Anna's husband, [[Stanislav Redens]], who was shot in January that year.<ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2003|p=332}}</ref>