Speaker 1: Joseph Stalin's daughter probably never imagined that by forty five,
Speaker 1: she'd be married to an American, summering amongst cows in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and wintering amongst cacti in Arizona, mothering a newborn baby,
Speaker 1: and bending off a quasi mother in law she thought
Speaker 1: could maybe potentially end her. It's funny how that happens.
Speaker 1: I also had different plans for my life. I thought
Speaker 1: I was going to live in New York forever. But
Speaker 1: then I met the right guy who pushed me to
Speaker 1: take a giant leap of faith and leave everything behind
Speaker 1: to move to a city I'd never even visited. I
Speaker 1: want to take You. That's a song I wrote for
Speaker 1: Jordan at our wedding in Portland a few years later.
Speaker 1: See that's the thing about choosing to spend your life
Speaker 1: with some one. It feels like this big, scary, exciting
Speaker 1: leap into the unknown, and then suddenly you have a
Speaker 1: floor under you for all time. That is, unless it's
Speaker 1: not the right person, or the right time, or the
Speaker 1: right circumstance, and then it turns out that the floor
Speaker 1: was made of glass and someone stomped too hard. Listen.
Speaker 1: There are challenges to every marriage and sped Lana was
Speaker 1: willing to do everything in her power to make the
Speaker 1: marriage work. But there are some challenges that are pretty
Speaker 1: hard to overcome, like a woman in a golf cart
Speaker 1: who might want to kill you. My name is Dan Katroser,
Speaker 1: and this is sped Lana. Sped Lana. You wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning, you live your day, and then you
Speaker 1: do it tomorrow and over and over again, and over
Speaker 1: again and over. Act one. Well, we have ruined it.
Speaker 1: When we last left stet Lana, it was a sticky,
Speaker 1: sweaty day in spring Green, Wisconsin, and strolling through the
Speaker 1: small cemetery of Budding tali Essen, she had come upon
Speaker 1: a grave that bore her own name, stet Lana Peters.
Speaker 1: It felt like a warning when I saw my name
Speaker 1: set Lana Peters. So, oh my god, that's how little
Speaker 1: finished was me and little baby Daniel Peters, who lay
Speaker 1: dead and buried next to his mother, was an omen
Speaker 1: for her baby Olga. I was afraid. I was afraid
Speaker 1: for her life. And the source of that fear, missus Wright,
Speaker 1: could I was. I was scared of her. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: I just kids. My heart starts racing like no. This
Speaker 1: interview is recorded by Roger and Harold about thirty years
Speaker 1: after the fact, but speed Lana still talks about Olga
Speaker 1: Vanna as if she's right there breathing down her neck.
Speaker 1: She tells this story about taking a walk with baby
Speaker 1: Olga in her arms and coming across missus Wright roaming
Speaker 1: the expansive property on her golf cart. She invited us
Speaker 1: to sit down to the cart and we will go
Speaker 1: on that road down to the lake. Spent Lana squeezes
Speaker 1: onto the seat, cradling the baby with one hand. By
Speaker 1: speed Lana's account, Olga Vana suddenly has a need for speed.
Speaker 1: She's flying down the rolling hills, kicking up dirt. Her
Speaker 1: passenger is panicked. She I think she could just kill us,
Speaker 1: row astolutely. I don't know what she was, this kind
Speaker 1: of a person, fighting, frighting, frightful person. Okay, just to
Speaker 1: recap speed Lana things, Olga Vanna could kill her and
Speaker 1: her baby daughter and throw them into a lake. There
Speaker 1: was only one thing speed Lana could do to ward
Speaker 1: off the evil that was lurking around her and her daughter.
Speaker 1: I wanted sort of protection. She wants to baptize Olga
Speaker 1: as a sort of protection. Sped Lana was a very
Speaker 1: spiritual person. It was her grandmother, Olga's namesake, who had
Speaker 1: instilled in her a strong sense of faith from a
Speaker 1: young age. Sveet Lana's father had even started out in
Speaker 1: the seminary studying to be a priest. Of course, a
Speaker 1: little later he all butt outlawed religion in the Soviet Union,
Speaker 1: So you know, holidays were always a little complicated. At
Speaker 1: the Stalins, Wes is on board with the baptism. He
Speaker 1: even knows the perfect spot. So in September of nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy one, spent Lana and West find themselves in Milwaukee
Speaker 1: at the Greek Orthodox Church of Annunciation. Neither spent Lana
Speaker 1: nor Wes are Greek Orthodox or Annunst. But this church
Speaker 1: was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and it was being
Speaker 1: consecrated for its ten year anniversary. The Archbishop Yakovos had
Speaker 1: come all the way from Greece for the big affair.
Speaker 1: Hello Yakovos. So there is little baby Olga in the
Speaker 1: arms of Yakovos, a sea of taliess and fellows waiting
Speaker 1: in the pews before her, and behind her a painting
Speaker 1: of Mother Mary cradling Jesus, and I ship you not
Speaker 1: that Mary and Jesus were modeled off of the deceased
Speaker 1: spet Lana and her baby Daniel. This is where the
Speaker 1: phrase WTF comes from. Little baby Olga is covered in
Speaker 1: fragrant oils and dipped in holy water three times during
Speaker 1: the five hour ceremony, just to put that in context.
Speaker 1: That is one hour less than Franco Zepharelli's landmark film
Speaker 1: Jesus of Nazareth. What's your hoss? Marbe threes, Wes is beaming.
Speaker 1: Stet Lana dubs it the best of all possible baptisms.
Speaker 1: Everyone is happy, everyone that is, except for missus Wright.
Speaker 1: She was angry from the beginning. So she's angry at
Speaker 1: the beginning, but certainly by the end she's less angry. Right, No,
Speaker 1: in the end, she was more angry. Oh see, Olga.
Speaker 1: Vanna is pissed at this whole event, This event that
Speaker 1: should have honored Francloyd right and the fellowship has been
Speaker 1: overshadowed by spet Lana and her small, stupid baby. A
Speaker 1: baby can't make a church. As soon as the ceremony
Speaker 1: is over, missus Wright haul's ass out of Milwaukee, skipping
Speaker 1: the big celebratory dinner and just to be clear when
Speaker 1: missus Wright isn't happy. It's not like she keeps it
Speaker 1: to herself. Her absence is loud. When was returned, she
Speaker 1: called West of course late at night, and she gave
Speaker 1: him great talk. And when she returns to me, she said, well,
Speaker 1: we have ruined it. You know, we have ruined this celebration.
Speaker 1: I feel for West in this moment. He'd wanted to
Speaker 1: do something nice for the two women he loved, and
Speaker 1: it blew up in his face. He felt that he
Speaker 1: had to blame. He was very easily taking blame on himself. Well,
Speaker 1: I was at this point. I didn't even talk to
Speaker 1: her because I thought that she was some kind of dreagon.
Speaker 1: So West is trying to smooth things over. But then
Speaker 1: he has to go back to Iran to keep working
Speaker 1: on his palace, obviously, and so that fall, the tally
Speaker 1: Essen fam returns to Scottsdale and spent Lana is left
Speaker 1: alone with her freshly baptized baby, just steps away from
Speaker 1: the dragon woman she thinks could kill her. With West
Speaker 1: away on business in the Middle East, the tension between
Speaker 1: these two women escalates to an untenable level. There's the
Speaker 1: evening spet Lana as having dinner with Olgavana and Yavannah.
Speaker 1: Rosemary Sullivan documents this one beautifully, and Stalin's daughter she
Speaker 1: said to Olgavana, you know West works too hard. He's
Speaker 1: always working, He's never free. It's going to be hard
Speaker 1: on his health. He's going to die, cries spet Lana
Speaker 1: through gritted teeth. Olgavannah growls, so will you so pretty
Speaker 1: frosty dinner parties. And then there's the time I'm spet Lana,
Speaker 1: according to friends of Taliessen, threatens to burn down the
Speaker 1: place for the third and final time. I think that
Speaker 1: was probably a hilarious joke, but olga Vana hires private security.
Speaker 1: On Christmas Day, it becomes clear that their differences might
Speaker 1: be irreconcilable. Olgavana shows up barefoot at stet Lana's front
Speaker 1: door and offers her a pair of diamond earrings a
Speaker 1: gesture of reconciliation. Let it be known that this is
Speaker 1: exactly the kind of olive branch that I expect from
Speaker 1: anyone who has ever wronged me. But stet Lana isn't
Speaker 1: having it. She throws the earrings onto the ground, exclaiming,
Speaker 1: you cannot buy my friendship. When Olga Vanna's daughter Yavannah
Speaker 1: hears this, she screams, I'll kill her. What surrounds tally
Speaker 1: Essen West is desert. There's a vastness to the landscape.
Speaker 1: But even with those majestic mountains and that epic sky
Speaker 1: Spetlana felt suffocated by old Vanna, Yavannah and every small
Speaker 1: infraction to her hard fought freedom. After Christmas, she moves
Speaker 1: out of tally Esen. She buys a house in residential
Speaker 1: Scottsdale and writes mister and Missus Peters on the deed
Speaker 1: because her beloved husband will of course be joining her shortly,
Speaker 1: won't he more? After the break Act two Our House
Speaker 1: January nineteen seventy two, Don McLean's American Pie hits number
Speaker 1: one on the billboards. Women's livers are trying to get
Speaker 1: that equal, writes Amendment Past, and Nixon announces he's gonna
Speaker 1: pull seventy thousand troops out of the Vietnam War. Speed
Speaker 1: Lana has pulled her own kind of withdrawal. After the
Speaker 1: tumultuous autumn Back at tally Esen West, speed Lana and
Speaker 1: West jointly purchase a house, and by jointly, of course,
Speaker 1: that Spetlana paid for it, and West's name got to
Speaker 1: be on it. This is a huge deal. Stet Lana
Speaker 1: had been asking for their own family home for months
Speaker 1: and months, and now she had one. A fully furnished
Speaker 1: house in a resort area of Scottsdale called Mountain Shadows East,
Speaker 1: cream colored with a wood shingled roof and a uniform
Speaker 1: guard at the complex entrance. It was perfect. But West,
Speaker 1: dear West, loyal royal charcoal broiled West. He has no
Speaker 1: intention of ever moving in. I would say she half
Speaker 1: believes he's going to follow her. One has to say
Speaker 1: from the outside that he's not a courageous man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Wes wasn't incapable of leaving. He'd done it once before
Speaker 1: as a young man with the first set Lana disillusioned
Speaker 1: with life at tally Essen and determined to make it
Speaker 1: on their own. West since fet Lana dramatically ran away together.
Speaker 1: In letters from that time, West is positively vitriolic, calling
Speaker 1: Right a scaly rascal, Olgavana a crazy, dirty feminine demon
Speaker 1: and tally Esen a canker oh Burne. But life outside
Speaker 1: of the womb of tally Esen was hard. West couldn't
Speaker 1: walk on his own as an architect. He needed his
Speaker 1: father figure. She married the king's daughter, and he found
Speaker 1: his king, and he had to serve him, and he
Speaker 1: needed his mother figure. Here's celest Davidson. He was so
Speaker 1: devoted to missus Wright he practically laid on the floor
Speaker 1: in front of her. So Wes and his bride crawled
Speaker 1: back to tally Esen. West didn't want to be the
Speaker 1: king of his own castle. So here's ft Lana. Married
Speaker 1: to a knight in King Arthur's court. He's taken a
Speaker 1: lifelong oath of loyalty and a wife and kid aren't
Speaker 1: going to change that. But sent Lana has no desire
Speaker 1: to join the royal court. She'd already been a princess.
Speaker 1: All she wants is autonomy and privacy, but even that
Speaker 1: proves too much to ask. One day, at her little
Speaker 1: house in Scottsdale, there's a knock at the door. She
Speaker 1: opens the door a crack, still in her house dress,
Speaker 1: and finds a male reporter from the Arizona Republic. Before
Speaker 1: Spetlana can close the door, the reporter has taken a
Speaker 1: snapshot of her new single life and then asks her
Speaker 1: about the apparent separation. She is embroiled in with West,
Speaker 1: still living over atalis in West and she and her
Speaker 1: daughter in this gated community. Spetlana didn't think they were
Speaker 1: separated in any sort of predivorce sense. She's still hopeful
Speaker 1: that this is a transitional period of their relationship. All
Speaker 1: she tells the reporter is that while she is done
Speaker 1: with communal living, she is still all in with her husband.
Speaker 1: The NBC Evening News had this to report, So Stalin
Speaker 1: Peters and the man she married two years ago seemed
Speaker 1: to be headed for a divorce. The husband, William Peters,
Speaker 1: said today they got married too fast and let his
Speaker 1: wife walked out on them. Dalan's daughters said she objected
Speaker 1: to communal living and that's why she moved out of
Speaker 1: the architectural foundation for which her husband works in Arizonas.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Republic frames the ensuing media chaos brilliantly as
Speaker 1: a quote Dink and Lob tennis match with American spectators
Speaker 1: looking on as Wes and stet Lana quote said their
Speaker 1: marital linen in public. That's right? Or shall I say
Speaker 1: that's right? With a w stet Lana and Wes both
Speaker 1: confess their disappointments and marital failures, not to each other,
Speaker 1: but to report after reporter. So now, in a thrilling
Speaker 1: toward a force performance, I and I alone will perform
Speaker 1: a selection of direct quotes from this heartbreaking media circus.
Speaker 1: Stet Lana, I was back under dictatorial rule. I just
Speaker 1: couldn't do it, Wes. Her mind has been conditioned by
Speaker 1: years of communist training. Stet Lana. I only hope that
Speaker 1: he will not be a pawn for others or allow
Speaker 1: someone else to direct his private life. Wes. She rejected
Speaker 1: a life pattern which I helped build, and I believe
Speaker 1: in sped Lana. This is not a conflict between my
Speaker 1: husband and me. He is a gentle person, Wes. I
Speaker 1: don't want any two bits of bourbon life sped Lana. Divorce,
Speaker 1: My god, I can't think of it, Wes. Divorce is
Speaker 1: inevitable scene. What you just witnessed was theater. Listen. I
Speaker 1: don't know what Wes since sped Lana said directly to
Speaker 1: each other, or if they said anything at all, but
Speaker 1: I do know this time must have been incredibly trying.
Speaker 1: Sped Lana writes, I was being tormented and the press
Speaker 1: was continually at the door or the telephone. But still
Speaker 1: she kept holding onto the hope that her husband might
Speaker 1: one day walk through the door of the house she'd
Speaker 1: bought for them. I want to take a pause and
Speaker 1: tell you how I've come to understand all of this
Speaker 1: from spet Lana's perspective. It comes from a manuscript of
Speaker 1: a memoir called The Faraway Music, which you've heard Cassie
Speaker 1: reading in this podcast. The third of set Lana's memoirs.
Speaker 1: It details her time at Taliessen. I managed to find
Speaker 1: a copy at Amherst College's Center for Russian Studies in
Speaker 1: western Massachusetts. In the middle of the winter, I flew
Speaker 1: across the country to meet up with my parents, Neil
Speaker 1: and Diane, and together we went to Amherst as snow
Speaker 1: blanketed the quad. For three days, I would wake up
Speaker 1: early and walk from the jeff In to the Russian Center.
Speaker 1: I had to check my bags, but was allowed to
Speaker 1: take in my phone and a notepad as I furiously
Speaker 1: took pictures of each and every page of this mysterious manuscript,
Speaker 1: the ones fet Lana could never convince any major publisher
Speaker 1: to print. The Russian Center library was lined with giant
Speaker 1: Samovars and tended to by the archivist, whose name was Nadia.
Speaker 1: She stayed in her office as I poured over the pages.
Speaker 1: Nadia was a Russian immigrant herself, having left her family
Speaker 1: back in the Motherland and not having seen them for
Speaker 1: many years. I don't remember the specific thrill of each
Speaker 1: and every page I read, but I do remember the
Speaker 1: feeling when I reached page one hundred and thirty in
Speaker 1: the book, the page where we are now after Stetlana
Speaker 1: was told by her marriage counselor not to go back
Speaker 1: to tally Esen, a scene that I could see so
Speaker 1: clearly on the screen, a scene that broke my heart.
Speaker 1: Here's Cassie reading from that page once. I could not
Speaker 1: resist it anymore and drove to Taliesin it's dark, all
Speaker 1: the fellows tucked into the rooms after a long day.
Speaker 1: Stet Lana walks up to the glass door of what
Speaker 1: was once her small apartment with West. My heart sank.
Speaker 1: All was as when I left. She enters softly, and
Speaker 1: then she sees him. I moved slowly into the sitting room,
Speaker 1: and there was Wess, his back to me, barefoot in
Speaker 1: his silk dressing gown, sitting before the television. He was
Speaker 1: sitting like that for a while, quite motionless, and I
Speaker 1: came closer and touched him by the shoulder, weeping. He
Speaker 1: stands up, sad, pale, exhausted. You must go, he said,
Speaker 1: fearing that someone might see me there. You shouldn't, You shouldn't.
Speaker 1: He was unable to say anything more, neither was I.
Speaker 1: He walks out the door barefoot, as speed Lana follows
Speaker 1: and takes her towards her car, parked amidst the cacti.
Speaker 1: Only the stars were glittering on a deep, dark sky.
Speaker 1: We did not talk, and then I drove away, slowly,
Speaker 1: still crying. I could see him in my driving mirror,
Speaker 1: standing there by the roadside, the same beautiful desert road
Speaker 1: through which I was driven to taliesin the first time.
Speaker 1: That was the last time I saw it. I could
Speaker 1: picture it speed Lana driving through that desolate landscape, crying,
Speaker 1: feeling more alone than she's ever been. She'd come here
Speaker 1: with an American dream, money, family, peace. But as she
Speaker 1: drives away from tali Essen that night, in the stillness
Speaker 1: of the desert, I imagine all she can hear are
Speaker 1: her darkest thoughts, her feelings of failure, her father's voice
Speaker 1: in her head, You're a fool's ft Lana. I had
Speaker 1: to stop reading that day. There was no more breath
Speaker 1: inside of me. I looked over at the archivists Naja
Speaker 1: and said, it's so sad. Her life was so hard.
Speaker 1: Naja looked at me. She nodded, half interested, half focused
Speaker 1: on whatever archival Workley before her, probably mostly annoyed. An
Speaker 1: immigrant in America herself, she probably thought, yes, most of
Speaker 1: our stories are hard. Some of us are still living
Speaker 1: them more. After the break Act three, less of Wes
Speaker 1: Stelana wanted to be married to Wes. She tried so
Speaker 1: hard to save their marriage, and yet the inevitable becomes official.
Speaker 1: They agree to a divorce. Here's Rosemary. When they finally divorced,
Speaker 1: he put the blame on her, and then he finally
Speaker 1: said more honestly, I should never have let her marry me.
Speaker 1: Her finances are pretty grim. Of her one point five million,
Speaker 1: she was almost broke. There was almost nothing left. She
Speaker 1: knew that there was no point in trying to get
Speaker 1: support from Wesley because he didn't have a salary and
Speaker 1: all the money he ever made went right into tally Esen.
Speaker 1: And she wanted to not have any grounds for acrimony
Speaker 1: or anger or complaint. She said, one day he'll understand
Speaker 1: who I was. I cried for him, for myself, for
Speaker 1: our small child, and gradually I felt that all my
Speaker 1: hatred or whatever it was, was leaving me. I've lost
Speaker 1: the game in a way, but from the other point
Speaker 1: of view, I've won something too. One day, Wes, we'll
Speaker 1: recognize that. I'm not entirely sure what she means by that,
Speaker 1: but clearly spent Lana is trying to pick herself back
Speaker 1: up and start over again, like she always does. In
Speaker 1: the summer of nineteen seventy two, spent Lana buys back
Speaker 1: her old house in Princeton, New Jersey. Wes accompanies his
Speaker 1: soon to be ex wife and daughter as far as
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia airport, kisses them goodbye, and then immediately flies
Speaker 1: back to tally Esen. Sped Lana is left starting over
Speaker 1: with a broken heart. I know what you're thinking. Back
Speaker 1: to Princeton. Another escape, a relationship demolished, new enemies forged.
Speaker 1: This is the same story again and again, a story
Speaker 1: about breaking out of old chains and then climbing into
Speaker 1: new ones, a cycle of obsession and then abandonment, another
Speaker 1: fresh start, except something's different now. Stetlana's a divorced, single
Speaker 1: mother in her late forties, without the financial security she'd
Speaker 1: first come into in America and with a young child
Speaker 1: to support, and that child, well, she grew up to
Speaker 1: be an adult. She's in her fifties now. She's changed
Speaker 1: her name, but I'll still refer to her as Olga
Speaker 1: throughout the podcast, both for consistency and because she's a
Speaker 1: very private person. I've spoken to her several times over
Speaker 1: the last year, both on and off Mike. She's a
Speaker 1: wonderful storyteller who has lived a big life and gave
Speaker 1: me a lot of insight into her mother. But out
Speaker 1: of respect for her desire for privacy, you won't hear
Speaker 1: much of her voice in this podcast. The biggest thing
Speaker 1: I learned from her was that in these postaliessin years
Speaker 1: starting over again, stet Lana and Olga are everything to
Speaker 1: each other. No matter what challenges they face, it's the
Speaker 1: two of them against the world. I believe that without her,
Speaker 1: Slana would have done herself in or something. You know,
Speaker 1: she wouldn't have made it. But as a mother once again,
Speaker 1: a mother who tried to make peace with the loss
Speaker 1: of her two adult children back in Russia, the past
Speaker 1: was hard to shake. In December of nineteen seventy five,
Speaker 1: stet Lana and Olga go to California for the holidays
Speaker 1: to visit West's sister and brother in law. So imagine
Speaker 1: it Christmas Day. Maybe there's jazz humming from the record
Speaker 1: player or Carol's being played on the piano, eggnog being drunk,
Speaker 1: presents being unwrapped, a family gathering on the holiest of nights.
Speaker 1: You can see it, can't you. A Russian emigre close
Speaker 1: in on fifty with a four and a half year old.
Speaker 1: She doesn't have a job, she's all but given up
Speaker 1: writing as a profession. The woman who was born speed
Speaker 1: Lana Stelina was now an appendage, an American divorcee at
Speaker 1: the end of someone else's Christmas table. And then something happens.
Speaker 1: Set Lana gets up from the table. She makes her
Speaker 1: way to the telephone, and she places a very long
Speaker 1: distance call. The phone rings and rings and rings, and
Speaker 1: then suddenly someone answers if it was the evening in California,
Speaker 1: it would be morning on the other end of the line. Bunny,
Speaker 1: is that you, speed Lana asks a gruff voice answers.
Speaker 1: Do you think you'd sound like yourself after nine years?
Speaker 1: That gruff voice it belongs to Svetlana's son, Joseph Bunny
Speaker 1: as his mother called him as a child. And then
Speaker 1: the phone goes dead. Did he hang up? Did the
Speaker 1: KGB intercept the call? We don't know, neither did she
Speaker 1: Her heart must have ached yearned it had been nine
Speaker 1: years since she'd last heard her son's voice. You can
Speaker 1: see her, can't you, by herself holding the receiver of
Speaker 1: a telephone, a dial tone playing a solitary solo while
Speaker 1: Christmas jazz plays softly in the other room. She had
Speaker 1: a whole new life here in America, but that didn't
Speaker 1: erase the previous one. The characters from the last chapter
Speaker 1: were still living on in a different book, and up
Speaker 1: until now, Stetlana had conditioned herself to keep those stories
Speaker 1: separate so she could move on to the next chapter
Speaker 1: in her life. But maybe this is the moment here
Speaker 1: holding the telephone, when Stetlana finally feels the urge to
Speaker 1: unify all those stories, where she feels the only way
Speaker 1: to move forward is to go backwards. And this, my friends,
Speaker 1: is set Lana's cycle doing the same thing over and
Speaker 1: over again, and over and over again. So on the
Speaker 1: next episode of set Lana spet Lana, We're going back
Speaker 1: to Russia. Set Lana stet Lana is a production of
Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts and the documentary group I'm Your Host Dan Catrosser.
Speaker 1: The show was written and produced by me Adam Webber,
Speaker 1: Alison Joy, and Catherine Isaac. We also serve as executive
Speaker 1: producers at the documentary group. Our executive producer is Joe Batzilouitz,
Speaker 1: with production oversight by Stacy kleeger An additional support from
Speaker 1: Tom Yellen and Gabrielle Tenenbaum. Our iHeart team is supervising
Speaker 1: producer Casey Pegram and executive producer Maya Howard. Editing assistants
Speaker 1: from producers Christina Loranger and Joey pat Original music by
Speaker 1: Elan Izakov. Production counsel by slas Ekhouse, Dasty Haynes Lockoe,
Speaker 1: Clearance counsel by Ballard Sparr, Back checking assistance by Meghan Trout.
Speaker 1: Special thanks to my husband Jordan Siegel and Roger Friedland
Speaker 1: and Harold Zelman, authors of the book The Fellowship, who
Speaker 1: kindly granted permission to include excerpts from their taped interview
Speaker 1: with Spetlana, excerpts from Stetlana Alujeva's book The Faraway. Music
Speaker 1: are performed by Cassie Greer.