Lana Peters, born Svetlana Stalina and later known as Svetlana Alliluyeva, died of colon cancer on Nov. 22, according to Richland County, Wis., coroner Mary Turner.
Peters had lived on-and-off in the United States since famously defecting from the Soviet Union in 1967. Fourteen years after her father’s death, Peters traveled from the Soviet Union to India, where she unexpectedly arrived at the U.S. embassy and begged for political asylum. She arrived in the United States one month later, settling in Princeton, N.J., and denouncing the Soviet Union.
“I have come here to seek the self-expression that has been denied me for so long in Russia,” she said at the time."
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