Color 4.5 x 6.5 magazine photo of Svetlana Alliluyeva posing with her son Iosif in the mid-1950s, matted to a slightly larger size, signed on the mat in black ink. In fine condition, with some light creasing to photo. Accompanied by a transmittal letter dated November 25, 1967, a Taliesin West 'thank you' card, signed in blue ballpoint, "Svetlana Peters," and a mailing envelope addressed in Alliluyeva's own hand.
Born in 1926 in Moscow, Svetlana Alliluyeva was the youngest child of Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Despite growing up in party circles, she defected to the United States in 1967. She passed away in 2011 as Stalin’s last surviving child.
