Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva (Hardback). Hutchinson, 1967 -Children of heads of state-256 pages In this riveting, New York Times-bestselling memoir first published by Harper in 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan s critically acclaimed biography, Stalin s Daughter, describes the surreal experience of growing up in the Kremlin in the shadow of her father, Joseph Stalin. Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters,