Marriages
At age 17 she received a marriage proposal from Grigory Morozov, a fellow student at Moscow University. Her father grudgingly allowed the couple to marry, although he made a point of never meeting the bridegroom. A son, Iosif, was born in 1945. The couple divorced in 1947, but remained close friends for decades.
Alliluyeva's second marriage was arranged for her; that husband was Yuri Zhdanov, the son of Stalin's right-hand-man Andrei Zhdanov and himself one of Stalin's close associates. They were married in 1949. In 1950, Alliluyeva gave birth to a daughter, Yekaterina. The marriage was dissolved soon afterward. In 1963, Alliluyeva lived with an Indian Communist politician named Brajesh Singh. They were not officially married, but they lived together for four years until she left for the United States in 1967 following his death. From 1970–73, she was married to an American architect William Wesley Peters, with whom she had a daughter, Olga.
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