THE CONNECTION BETWEEN STALIN’S DAUGHTER AND FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
…the caption says:
“Svetlana and William Peters - The former Svetlana Alliluyeva and architect William Wesley Peters announced their marriage Tuesday at Taliesin West, the architecture school of the late Frank Lloyd Wright, near here. The daughter of Russian Premier Joseph Stalin and Peters, Wright’s former chief assistant, were married in a simple Quaker ceremony. 1970 Phoenix.” (found here)
…from the new york times obituary:
“Mr. Peters (her husband) had been chief apprentice to the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and, for a time, the husband of Wright’s adopted daughter. Wright’s widow, Olgivanna Wright, encouraged the Peters-Alliluyeva marriage, even though the adopted daughter was Mrs. Wright’s biological daughter from a previous marriage. That daughter was also named Svetlana, and Mrs. Wright saw mystical meaning in the match.”
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