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How does the granddaughter of Stalin live in America

Every year more and more Russians, according to research, they approve of General Joseph Stalin: they erect monuments in his honor, draw icons and hold rallies. Special correspondent "Snob" Polina Eremenko tracked down Stalin's granddaughter, who lives in America.

Chris Evans loves Mexican food, drugs and his dog, does not like Russians, journalists and traveling. She has 14 piercings, a radical haircut and a tattoo Dear mommy On the hand. She dreams that she should be called on a date at an Italian restaurant on the seashore and that ecstasy flowed from her house right under the tap. It infuriates her when in the evening she does not find chocolate in the refrigerator, and in the wardrobe she really lacks a belt with a plaque in the form of ovaries. She quits smoking and starts again. She catches panic attacks in the scanner. She eats tacos at a time on 20, and then belches for her own pleasure, saying: “Mm, what a delicious belch.” Every month she changes her hair color - from leopard to crimson, and then to the checker cell. Her hairdresser Gino is her best friend. This Gino photographed Chris in torn pantyhose, shorts and with a toy gun and a gun in his hands. In March, 2016, these photos parted on social networks and accompanied by condemning comments: “What would grandfather say?”. Chris Evans doesn't care what grandfather would say. For her, he is only a tyrant from faraway Russia, where his beloved mother, Svetlana Alliluyeva, once fled in search of a better life. Grandpa Chris - Joseph Stalin.

Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, his “little sparrows”, was born in 1926 year. Svetlana emigrated from the USSR twice, changed her surname three times, married four times and wrote four books of memoirs. Countless times the little sparrows cursed their father, took the words back and cursed them again.

Svetlana made her first escape from the Soviet Union in 1966, when she obtained permission from the Soviet authorities to accompany the ashes of her third husband Brajesh Singh, an Indian émigré who worked as a translator in the USSR, to her homeland. On the eve of her return to Moscow, Svetlana appealed to the US Embassy in Delhi with a request to grant her a residence permit. Two older children, Svetlana, Catherine and Joseph, waited for their mother for several hours at the airport in Moscow before they were told that she would not come.

At birth 21 in May 1971, Chris Evans received the name Olga Peters. For five years in the United States, Alliluyeva managed to write autobiographical novels “Twenty Letters to a Friend” and “Only One Year,” for which she received 2,5 a million dollars in fees. In the wake of the popularity of Alliluyeva, she met the architect Wes Peters and three weeks later married him. Wes peters judging by his obituarypublished in the newspaper The New York Times in 1991, I remember this world for the most part with my marriage to Alliluyeva and the fact that I was in charge of building the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The first move happened when Olga was not yet a year: Alliluyeva packed Olga into a picnic basket, put it in the front seat of the car and set off. Before coming of age, Olga had to move with her mother more than a dozen times, and she hated moving for ever. From Arizona to Wisconsin, from Wisconsin to New Jersey, from New Jersey to California, from one city of California to another, then back to New Jersey.

Svetlana Alliluyeva always had formal reasons for moving: a new home would be better, a better school, better people. But it was not so simple. “There were moments when mother had nightmares like a child. And it was never clear what preceded it, ”Chris said about her mother.

Most often, travel occurred in November - the month in which Svetlana's mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife, shot herself. According to Svetlana, in the evening of November 9, 1932, the parents quarreled a bit. “It seems there was no reason. Only a small quarrel at the festive banquet in honor of the XV anniversary of the October Revolution. “Just” the father said to her: “Hey, you, drink!”. And she “only” screamed suddenly: “I’m not giving you that!” - she got up and left everyone at the table for all. ”

Olga worried that due to frequent travels she was losing friends. She wanted to have a lot of guests at home and noisy. But Svetlana Alliluyeva did not like when people were in the house. She wanted the house to be empty, and that there was silence in it, since there could not be her own friends in it. "All the years I spent in America, I missed the company of my friends - wonderful artists and intellectuals whom I knew in Moscow and Leningrad ... I wanted to be here, in America, among similar people who were highly educated - but I didn’t access to them, ”wrote Allilueva in“ Distant Music ”.

В essay The Washington Post “Odyssey of Stalin’s granddaughter,” written about Chris back in 1980, her nanny Pamela Stefansson said that mother and daughter constantly quarreled: “They quarreled about boys, clothes, movies, television.” About the grandfather, according to the memories of the nanny, the girl never asked: "She seems to have once made a report about him at school, but we never discussed it."

Alliluyeva wanted her daughter to grow up as a real American: “Because of my inner disgust for my own past, I never taught her Russian, not a single word; I wanted her to feel like a 100% American. ” Therefore, when Olga asked her mother to call her Chrissy, in honor of the main character of the American sitcom “Troy is a company” popular in those years, Allelueva did not object.

In 13 years, Chris ran away from home; Allilueva solved the problem in the traditional way - the next move, this time to the UK. So, in 1984, Chris went to boarding school in Sussex. Despite the fact that by that time Chris was pretty fed up with travel, she immediately fell in love with boarding: there she was allowed to paint her nails and wear jeans. Life began to improve.

And then at school someone found out that she was Stalin's granddaughter, and the paparazzi fell on the school. The teachers had to hide it and smuggle it home. The girl did not understand what was happening: “I understand that this sounds crazy, but I did not know that grandfather was a tyrant. For me, he was one of three people in the photo who won World War II: Churchill, Roosevelt and he! Then my mother asked me to sit down and listen carefully to her ... I had a lot to think about. Although I must say, with my mother there is always enough material for reflection, ”- told Chris.

Alliluyeva decided that after such a significant event you can move again. She told Chris: it's time to get ready, this time we are going to the USSR. Alliluyeva wanted to see her son Joseph, the very one who stood at the airport 17 years ago and waited for her to return from India. That night, the neighbors heard a loud cry from their apartment: Chris did not want to leave the UK. Alliluyeva and her daughter left in such a hurry that they did not even throw the food out of the refrigerator.

In the fall of 1984, Alliluyeva and Chris flew to Moscow. They were greeted solemnly, Alliluyeva was given back a Soviet passport, and she, in joy, told the American correspondent of the ABC channel in Moscow: “You are all savages, uncivilized people, goodbye to all of you!”. But her son Joseph, whom she so dreamed of seeing Alliluyev, seemed to her too cold. “I keep the son’s right hand in my left hand all the time and find that the hand has changed. She was thin, with long fingers, graceful like that. Now the fingers are short and thick - is it possible? Quite a different hand. I look at him, he looks at me, we do not speak, ”she wrote in her next memoir, A Book for Granddaughters. Olga told reporters about that meeting that no one wanted to communicate with her: “It was as if everyone were very disappointed that we did not bring a VCR and foreign spirits as a gift.”

Svetlana quickly began to doubt the correctness of moving to Moscow. The next November was nearing, she stopped sleeping, not knowing what to do next. And then, at a sleepless night, she had a vision: she needed to go urgently to Georgia. There, Chris spent two years of which nothing is known, and in April 1986, the news agency Associated Press released message: “Olga Peters (the official name is Chris) returns to her English school: 14-year-old American granddaughter of Joseph Stalin returned to her school on Wednesday, and in tears embraced teachers and classmates. She stated that her mother regretted that she had made her move to the Soviet Union. ” Two years later, Chris married her friend by the name of Evans, became Chris Evans and disappeared from the radar for a quarter of a century.

Today, Chris Evans is 47 years old, she lives in Portland, where she rents a house with friends. Chris works in a store Three Monkeysselling vintage and second-hand. Chris Evans doesn’t cause such an interest as her mother to the outside world: since 80's, one newspaper essay and two news stories have been written about her, after Alliluyeva died in 2011, she gave two interviews. Chris Evans categorically refused to communicate with Snob: “I do not give an interview. I don’t need to call me anymore, ”and deleted her page on Facebook.

“The past does not change. I always understood that my number one task in this world is to take care of my mother and love her, no matter what, so that at least in her old age she could heal the wounds he had received in childhood, ”said Chris in one of the two interviews she gave after mom's death. In the same interview, she said that until her mother died, she talked with her on the phone every day at six in the evening, and each of them in her hand necessarily had a glass of wine. Svetlana Alliluyeva died on November 9, 2011. Before her death, she instructed the nursing home staff: under no circumstances should her daughter see her in a coffin. Alliluyev was pursued all his life by the image of his own shot mother in the coffin.

Of the loved ones, Chris left only a friend-hairdresser Gino and his beloved dog Sparta. Her photos Evans constantly posted on her Facebook: Sparta for a walk, Sparta climbed into bed with her mistress ... When Sparta is sick, Chris writes alarm posts that “she will never let her dog die.” And then, with irony, he remarks: “Yes, my dog ​​has a medical insurance better than mine.” Chris's insurance is really unimportant. She did not cover all the costs of her own treatment when she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Evans tried to raise money on the platform giveforward.com, but from the requested $ 5000 scored only $ 2084. Due to her poor insurance, Chris was forced to sit in a live queue, wait for each appointment for hours, and rather soon it was removed from work. At some point, Chris did not have enough money even for dog food for Sparta. True, everything ended well: Chris had a 12 weekly course of chemotherapy and is now recovering. And Gino cheers up, changing her hairstyles every month. The only thing that Chris can not cope with is the current toilet at home, which she is unable to repair: “Life is so funny. I can beat cancer and heal my broken heart, and survive the death of loved ones, but now, when my toilet has been flowing for many days and there is no end to it, and it costs me a dollar a second, I, *****, losing my head. "

It seems, seven years after the death of Alliluyeva, the life of Chris Evans revolves around his mother. On hand stuffed Dear Mommy, she puts a photo of her mother on her avatar on Facebook and signs: “To put a photo of a mother on your avatar is a pitiful attempt to be at least as big as she was. I really miss her and I really need her. ”

At night, Chris, like his mother, sometimes gets scared. The only advantage she finds in her solitude is that you don’t have to share the TV remote with anyone. She dreams of finding a new husband, such that he does not have children from previous marriages and that he does not spare money for a beautiful wedding. Above the girls who choose their wedding dresses in the style of 1920's, she laughs and looks for ideas for a perfect date on the site Bored Panda - for the time being, she likes the variant with the Italian cave restaurant the most. However, as soon as she in reality comes across a man, she absolutely does not understand what to do: “This morning I was called on a date. IN THE GYM. Yeah, right during the workout. That - how are you? And I'm all sweaty, without makeup. I do not know what to think. Any thoughts?

When Chris gets depressed, she dreams of having a mom next to her: “I want my mom to give me a kick in the ass, I’m screaming that she’s crazy, and fly up to the ceiling, and then everything will calm down and be as it should.” She also likes to remember how my mother cut her hair in childhood: “It would be better for her to write novels, and not to cut me.” The most delicious smell in the world for her is the smell of pancakes that mom used to make in childhood, and she makes borscht only according to her mother's recipe, adding an egg to it. And my mother's soup is, it seems, the only Russian that she likes. The rest of the time "Russian" is rather an abusive word for her. If in the supermarket an asshole treads on a leg - definitely Russian.

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