1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: There aren't many things about steed Lana Alujeva that are surprising. 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: She's a Russian who doesn't like vodka. She's a princess 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 1: who hates dressing up. Her favorite movie of all time 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: is Weird Al Yankovic's uhf Okay. That last one is 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: actually my favorite movie. But the point is the most 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: unsurprising thing about Stetlana is that she fantasizes about a 7 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: picture perfect, calm, loving nuclear family. And when I had 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: my own children and I wanted them to have more 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: normal life. Look, we're all trying to give our kids 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: what we didn't have, a normalcy, or s fet Lana's 11 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: fantasy of it was one thing she lacked growing up 12 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: as Stalin's daughter, and any normalcy she'd managed to create 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: for herself was thrown out the window when she left 14 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: her kids behind and made her way to America. Since 15 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: defecting three years ago, Svetlana hasn't really spoken to her children, 16 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: Josef and Katia. Their response to her abandonment was understandably 17 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: harsh and resentful, but she never stopped trying, even though 18 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: her birthday cards and letters arrived back in her mailbox 19 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 1: marked return to sender and she held out hope that 20 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: eventually they would come around. Maybe in future, I hope 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: I will be able to invite them to come to 22 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: spend their vacations. Maybe that would be possible, that would 23 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: not be possible. So now she's going to try and 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: shape her life into the most fantastically normal existence anyone 25 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: could ever dream of. At tally Essen, the least normal 26 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: place of all time. My name is Dan Catroser, and 27 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:57,559 Speaker 1: this is sped Lana. Sped Lana. You wake up in 28 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: the morning, you live your day, and then you do 29 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: it tomorrow, and over and over again, and over again 30 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: and over and over again. Act one Cash Cows. If 31 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: you go to spring Green, Wisconsin, one thing people will 32 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: be so excited to tell you about is how the 33 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: geological area that encompasses southwestern Wisconsin, the area where the 34 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: Rights made their home, is called the Driftless. Let's go there. Now, 35 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: close your eyes, breathe in. Imagine softly rolling hills laced 36 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: with babbling brooks. Give yourself permission to step back in 37 00:02:53,360 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: time before the last Ice Age, to a region spared 38 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: from glaciers, allowing it to retain its natural splendor. Now 39 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: open your eyes and give yourself a pat on the 40 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: back for watching a YouTube channel called slow TV Dreamy 41 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: Views of Driftless Wisconsin. You must be really cool the driftless. 42 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 1: Wasn't that just the perfect metaphor for ours ft Lana? 43 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: And yet, ironically, after drifting around from Russia to India 44 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: to New York to Princeton to Arizona, it was here 45 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: in the driftless where she started to feel rooted. About 46 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: a week after stet Lana and West arrived that summer, 47 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: fresh off their blissful cross country road trip from Arizona, 48 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: the local paper publishes a front page article missus William 49 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: Wesley Peters enjoys being spring greenhousewife. When the reporter asks 50 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: if she intends to continue her writing, Stetlana says, oh, no, 51 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: two books were enough. She is planning to do quote 52 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: nothing except be a good wife to my husband. That 53 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: is a full time job. A good wife what does 54 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: that really mean? You could watch Julianna Margalie's for seven 55 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: seasons and still not know. And a good mom that's 56 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: an even tougher one. But spent Lana is gonna have 57 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: to figure it out, because when she and Wes arrived 58 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, she meets her new stepson, Brandoc. May I 59 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: tell you how happy I am to have a twenty 60 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: eighth year old son, Brando Kapeters, who is a charming 61 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: young man. I am too lucky. Indeed, you've heard Brandoc's 62 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 1: name before. He was once Wes's little boy, the one 63 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: who survived the deadly car crash that killed his mother 64 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: and little brother. Now all grown up at twenty eight 65 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: years old, Brandoc is a little bit between jobs. An 66 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: accomplished cellist, he had made it all the way to 67 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: the Munich Orchestra, but because he wasn't first chair, his 68 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: grandma Olgavana had apparently told him he didn't stack up. 69 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: So Brandoc ditches the cello and moves back to Wisconsin 70 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: to live in his father's farmhouse called Aldebren West fittingly 71 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: chose the name, which in Arabic means the follower. Brandock's 72 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: going through the sort of stunted What am I going 73 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: to do with my life? How will I ever live 74 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: up to my lineage? My grandfather is Frank Lloyd right, 75 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: and I'm just a retired cellist arrested development phase, which, 76 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: in my humble opinion, sounds perfect for someone likes svent Lana, 77 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: who's in search of normal. He approached me that was 78 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: about the farm when he wanted to run this agricultural 79 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: business Brandoc has big dreams and spent Lana can help. 80 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: He wants to start a cattle breeding venture that he 81 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: and his father can manage. This whole thing sounds pretty 82 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: quaint to me. A little farmhouse, a herd of Hareford's. 83 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: It's like a family band that's all cowbell and stent. 84 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: Lana is thrilled at the chance to do something for 85 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: her men. As she calls them, outcomes the checkbook. Who 86 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: started the farm operation in Aldeberan that puts lots of 87 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: money into z Aldebra was originally built by Frank Lloyd 88 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: Wright's uncle, and while it's within view of taliesin up 89 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: on the Hill, it's a separate, single family home away 90 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: from communal life. These days it's an airbnb. So obviously 91 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: my producers and I stayed there. Here's Catherine, how much 92 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: should they do? I think you gotta read the whole thing. 93 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: Proudly Displayed on the wall is a framed advertisement for 94 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: the Peters family business. Aldebra, the Hamford Star of Wisconsin. 95 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: Cows that do not measure up to a high standard 96 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: of production, or who fail to transmit their own good 97 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,239 Speaker 1: qualities to their offspring have no place in this herd. 98 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: And then William Wesley Peters, operator is at the bottom 99 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: in funt Now listen, all this is well and grand, 100 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: but stet Lana is choosing to invest in her husband 101 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: and stepson after having refused to invest in the Foundation 102 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: to the tune of thirty thousand dollars a year. Wes 103 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: and Brandock were her family, not tally Esen, not Olgavana, 104 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: But to Olgavana, Lloyd Wright, these freaking cows must be 105 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: a radical act of disobedience. Wes had always given everything 106 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: to the Foundation, and Olgavana expected that his new wife 107 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: would too. Here's harold, he had inherited a significant amount 108 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: of wealth that was ultimately all turned over to tally 109 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: Essen one way or another. Still, for a moment, let's 110 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: ignore Olgavana's brewing discontent, because something bigger is brewing, something 111 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: no one expected would happen, something very normal. Stretlana Stalin Peters, 112 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: daughter of the late Soviet dictator, says she's expecting a 113 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: baby next ry. A forty four year old missus Peters 114 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: effective to the West four years ago, or two grown 115 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: children by a previous marriage, or still in the Soviet Joe. 116 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: This was everything set Lana could have asked for more, 117 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: even she rushes to tell Wes, who is of course 118 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: surprised a father again at fifty eight, But he's glad. 119 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: He was rather pleased, who were rather pleased as as 120 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: a surprise and speed. Lana is ecstatic. She had wanted 121 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: another chance to be a good mother, and now, by 122 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: some miracle, she's going to get it. I wanted to 123 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: be because I lost my two children adults are were 124 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: abroad and lost forever, so I was glad to have 125 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: another one. So let's once again close our eyes and 126 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: live inside this moment of warm than happiness and promise 127 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: among the rolling hills of driftless Wisconsin, inside a moment 128 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: where stet Lana is content and at peace and getting 129 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: everything she wants. Because almost immediately after Wes learns of 130 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 1: the pregnancy, he will run to Olgavannah and tell her everything, 131 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: and Olgavana will react in a very not normal way 132 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: after the break at two bullshit, I love it when 133 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 1: friends call it tell me they're pregnant. As a uncle 134 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: many times over I've gotten used to the text message, Hi, 135 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: will you be around later for a FaceTime? Okay, maybe 136 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: I feigned surprised two three eighty times. But it's always 137 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: really sweet when people you love are letting you be 138 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: a part of their great familial prologue. Okay, maybe it's 139 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: not always sweet. For example, that one time Wes went 140 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: ahead and told Olgavana that he and sp Lana we're expecting. 141 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 1: West ran to her with the news that we're going 142 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: to have a baby, you know, in our age, and 143 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 1: then of course he returned from her with the gray 144 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: face and saying that aren't you going to do something 145 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: about it? She wanted me to make abortion. Not exactly 146 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: the response you'd be hoping for as a middle aged 147 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: woman yearning for a family. Still, Lana must have noticed 148 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:29,839 Speaker 1: there weren't many kids at tally Essen after Frank was 149 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: right died. No children should be worn there. There's some 150 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: kind of prohibition, you know, no babies here. Here's biographer 151 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: Rosemary Sullivan again. And if there were kids, they were 152 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: put in tents on the edge of the property. Olga 153 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: Vana considers the pregnancy a problem to be dealt with. 154 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: She said to him, how could you be so careless 155 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: when he told her kids Lana was pregnant. Olgavana begs 156 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: West to reason with his wife. She even calls Fetlana's friends, 157 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: the Kennon's, and demands they interfeed. It's a full court 158 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,319 Speaker 1: press as Frank Lloyd Write's widow tries to abort Joseph 159 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: Stalin's American grandchild. What a sentence those Fetlana was religious. 160 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: From what I can gather, she wasn't opposed to abortion. 161 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: She told one prospective biographer she'd had three abortions back 162 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: in Russia, but those were her choices. She asks Wes, 163 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: why does that dictator always interfere with human lives? Words 164 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: that will eventually make their way back to Olgavana. In 165 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: this world that is so fiercely overseen by its matriarch, 166 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: Stetlana is getting a bitter taste of the life she 167 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: thought she left behind. She had a way to impose 168 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: herself on other people, which she was like my father. 169 00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: She was a born dictator. She had this mandus tyrannical 170 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: dictatorial ways. Moreover, Svetlana is forty four years old, and 171 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 1: this pregnancy is her last chance to build the life 172 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: she always wanted. She's going to keep that baby. She's 173 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: going to fight for her family, which puts Wes in 174 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 1: a bit of a tough spot. He's become the human 175 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: rope in a game of tug of war between Stetlana 176 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: and Olga Vanna. But it's not a fun game of 177 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: tug of war like at theater camp where everyone is 178 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: gay and hates rope. This is like tug of war 179 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: at a sports camp where everyone is closeted and likes rope. 180 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: Don't think too hard on that one. The point is 181 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: this tug of war will last years. It will cost 182 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: s Fetlana a lot of heartache and a lot of money. 183 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: There's a letter we found in the archives from Stetlana 184 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: to her friend Don Loveless, dated January twenty fifth, nineteen 185 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: seventy one. She's about six months pregnant and nine months 186 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: into her marriage, and the pictures she paints is bleak. 187 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: It seems to me that we are doing something in 188 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: a wrong way which might turn out to be fatal 189 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: for both of us in the long run. Wes, she writes, 190 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: is so good, so trustful, that he is enslaved mentally 191 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: and financially by his loyalty to tally Essen. One by one, 192 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: she lists her grievances. Before she and West were married, 193 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: she had a million dollars and was living on twenty 194 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars a month in Princeton. Then enters one 195 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thousand spent on paying down as two 196 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars worth of debts Chiching, one hundred and 197 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: forty thousand to save his farm, Chiching two hundred and 198 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: fifty thousand to launch the family cattle business Chiching. She 199 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: said she's happy to do it. I enjoyed looking at 200 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: father and son being so close. I still continue to 201 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: feel clayteppy doing all these changes and arrangements, signing lots 202 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: of to me, but it's starting to add up spent. 203 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: Lana ditches the lawyers that oversee her money in New 204 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: York and hires Wes's firm instead. She pays to renovate 205 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: their rooms at Talis and West, which takes months and 206 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: goes one hundred and fifty percent over budget. Twenty five 207 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: thousand dollars paid to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Chitching, 208 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: Oh And if anyone cares. Spent Lana is also paying 209 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: for a hospital in India in honor of her late husband, 210 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: Brajesh Singh, just sing, it is clear we have to 211 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: stop doing that, or very soon nothing will be left here. 212 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: I am not writing more sensational books. Yet Wes continues 213 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: to spend NonStop. That is after all his m He 214 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: apparently mails ball gowns for some reason to spe Lana's 215 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: friend Joan Kennon. He buys so many cologns and perfumes 216 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: that he and speed Lana call their bathroom the fragrance garden. 217 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: For some with no money, he sure knows how to 218 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: spend it. It is good for him that I happened 219 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: to be near, but even Rockefeller or Ford would not 220 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: be enough to replace the money, which, in this abnormal 221 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: situation is just going into the send. And this send 222 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: is a vast Sahara desert, and there is only a 223 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: small brook in my possession to feed it. West clearly 224 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: has a problem and spent. Lana knows she cannot be 225 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: the one to solve it indefinitely, so she summons the 226 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: new lawyers who represent both her and the Franclay Wright 227 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: Foundation and demands that her husband be paid for his 228 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: architectural work. They laugh and tell her the foundation has 229 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: no money to pay him. So after a brief ray 230 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: of happiness and hope, a new marriage, a new baby, 231 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: a new life spent, Lana finds herself with a husband 232 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: and stepson who are either willingly or carelessly bankrupting her, 233 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: a quasi mother in law who wishes the baby inside 234 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: of her had never existed, and an entire fellowship of 235 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: architects who now shun her in the hallways. Other letters 236 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: in the archives revealed that Olgavana shouts at spet Lana 237 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: and says she behaves just like Stalin, and Olgavanna's daughter Vanna, 238 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: who'd once wished spet Lana could be your sister, curses 239 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: her out, writing you are the worst thing that ever 240 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: happened to poor West, and I feel nothing but pity 241 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: for him, and curses for myself and getting him involved 242 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: with you. And then Wes, who is still working tirelessly 243 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: for zero dollars a year, is sent to Tehran to 244 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: work on a palace. Obviously, so spet Lana is pregnant 245 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: and alone in a strange, suffocating place, and she decides, 246 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: for her final trimester she's going to get the hell 247 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: out of tali Essen and finish out her pregnancy in 248 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: California with Wes's sister and brother in law. Finally, can 249 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: we all just breathe a sigh of relief for stet 250 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: in this moment. I've never been pregnant before, but even 251 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: if I didn't have a fetus jes dating inside of me, 252 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: I'd probably want some space from Olgavana, Yavannah and the 253 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 1: rest of the Taliessen troope. And to be fair, I've 254 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: never had to care for a woman who is forty 255 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: four years old and pregnant with my dead daughter's husband's child. 256 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: So spent Lana focuses on her bun in the oven, 257 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: in peace and quiet, away from Olga, Vanna and the 258 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: rest of them. And on May twenty first, nineteen seventy one, 259 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: at a hospital outside of San Francisco, she gives birth 260 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 1: to a baby girl. Spent Lana Peters, the emigrant daughter 261 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 1: of Joseph Stalin, gave birth yesterday to a daughter. Like 262 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: any new parents, the Peters were proud to show off 263 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: their baby girl, named Olga wait in it a healthy 264 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: seven pounds nine ounces. Did you catch that? Spet Lana 265 00:17:54,800 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: names her baby girl Olga? Remember how Speta's grandmother's name 266 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: was Olga, which was also Olga Vanna's given name, and 267 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: how Olga Vanna had believed there was a mystical connection 268 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: between the two of them because her dead daughter's name 269 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: was speed Lana and spent Lana's name was Fetlana. Well, 270 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 1: now to complete the cycle, spent Lana, our spent Lana 271 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: is naming her daughter. That's right, Olga, Yes, Olga the 272 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: name Bullshita's back baby. Now, Wes isn't there for the birth, 273 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 1: not because he's in Tehran building a palace at this point. 274 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 1: He's actually in California, but no one can get a 275 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: hold of him because he's out to dinner with Olga 276 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 1: Vanna and the Talies and crew. He does eventually make 277 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: it to the hospital to high five his wife and 278 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: meet his kid, but in tali es In fashion, he 279 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: doesn't come alone like an older male. Valerie Cherish West 280 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: saunters into speed Lana's hospital room with news cameras in 281 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: tow And if there is any irony in the birth 282 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: here in the United States of a granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, 283 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: the baby's mother prefers not to see it for the 284 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 1: funding them just to hit the mother sharing this child, 285 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 1: and I only hope that she will being the joys 286 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 1: to my life. Can you imagine giving birth without your husband? 287 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,120 Speaker 1: And then he shows up a day late with an 288 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: entourage of reporters who want to remind you of your 289 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: tortured lineage. Unfortunately, West loved to be in the mid 290 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: public identy. He allowed, He loves to talk, and he 291 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: thought this is promoting architecture. Nevertheless, she writes that he 292 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: was giddy like a young father, even though he was 293 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: nearly sixty. He wanted the world to know and for 294 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: a woman that would swoon when he called her his 295 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: wife publicly Spetlana must have seen this whole charade as 296 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 1: proof of his love for her, for their family. For 297 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: a while after the birth, things seem better spent. Lana 298 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: loves motherhood, She loves her daughter. She loves staying with 299 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: Wes's sister in California for two glorious months. They get 300 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: to be a family away from the Fellowship, and in 301 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: this time away perhaps svent Lana dreams that they really 302 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,439 Speaker 1: can have it all, that Wes can carry on at 303 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 1: tally Essen and she can forge her family on her 304 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: own terms inside of it when sped Lana and West 305 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: fly from California to Wisconsin that summer, Olga Vana, as 306 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: a gesture of goodwill, gives them an extra room for 307 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 1: the baby. Wes, who is so often withholding, tells her 308 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: you brought me back to life after all those years. 309 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 1: Sped Lana is in a suspended heaven. Sped Lana had 310 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: this fantasy, and I found it so poignant. She's at 311 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: the farm. She's sitting on the bench in the front 312 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: open porch. Olga had just been born three months ago, 313 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: and I was sending the baby buggy. While sitting on 314 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: the wooden porch of a small farm. We had got 315 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 1: a dog at her feet. She has her baby in 316 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: the carriage. A big Irish wolfhound was peacefully lying at 317 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: my feet as I rocked in an old comfortable rocker. 318 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 1: Her two men, as she calls them, Wesley and his 319 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: son are coming over ther horizon. A herd of cows 320 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: was returning home down the road with cowbells tinkling. I 321 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 1: could see down the road near the gate Wesley and 322 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 1: his grown son, hens in their pockets, slowly walking home 323 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 1: while discussing farm affairs. And she's happy. She thought she 324 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: could turn Wesley Peters into this pastoral romance. The rocker 325 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: was rocking, Olga was sleeping, and then here it is 326 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: the greatest, happiest moment of my life. Stop hold this 327 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 1: moment forever. I have a family, a home in my 328 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 1: new country, and from here on my life will be 329 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: like this, harmonious, secure and filled with evening light. So 330 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:35,239 Speaker 1: you know, we all fictionalized our lives somewhat so that 331 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: Lana wants to stay in this beautiful moment. But we 332 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 1: can't hit the pause button on our lives. Time has 333 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: an unrepentant way of flicking forward, no matter how hard 334 00:22:45,960 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: we try to stop it. More after the break, Act three, 335 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: Grave Danger, Svetlana really loved Wisconsin. She loved watching her 336 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 1: baby Olga grow healthy and strong, walking her in the 337 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 1: sunshine under rustling trees, nursing her on the warm earth, 338 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,120 Speaker 1: and playing with her toes in the green grass. This 339 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: was her Motherland's Svetlana writes, this was home. In fact, 340 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: Svetlana loved Wisconsin so much that she would eventually die there, 341 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: just twenty five miles from tally Essen. Its hold on 342 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: her would last her lifetime. When my team and I 343 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 1: went to Spring Green. We were skeptical. We'd read Harold 344 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: and Roger's book about the Fellowship, We'd read Svetlana's manuscripts 345 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: tinged with cynicism. But there really is some magic in 346 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: the driftless peace and wonder and so many delicious cheese 347 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: kurds hashtag lactad hashtag fart. I stayed in that farmhouse. 348 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: I sat on that porch where s Lana rocked her 349 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 1: baby and looked out at her men coming up over 350 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,679 Speaker 1: the hill, golden in the setting sun. I started to 351 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: understand the intoxicating allure, the dream she was projecting onto 352 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: everyone and everything around her. But I think that's what 353 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 1: it was, a fiction at odds with reality, and the 354 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: fantasy quickly shatters speed. Lana dreams of moving her family 355 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,199 Speaker 1: away from the hubbub of tally Essen and into the 356 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:35,159 Speaker 1: farm she's bankrolling Aldebran, but Brandoc says no, he and 357 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 1: his girlfriend live here and they need privacy. Okay, cool 358 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: cool Cool West starts to become distant again, seemingly resentful 359 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: that his new spet Lana doesn't more closely resemble his 360 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: first spet, Lana. Of course, Susana was part of the establishment, 361 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: and I was supposed to get into this thing too 362 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: and become part of it. Instead, spet is bad mouthing 363 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: tali Esen's traditions so openly that Olga Vanna bands the 364 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 1: young fellows from stopping by her room to chat, calling 365 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: her a bad influence. And oh yeah, the cattle venture 366 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: is bleeding money chi ching not exactly the cash cow 367 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: they'd hoped for. When September comes and Olga Vanna prepares 368 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 1: the fellowship to travel back to Arizona, she calls s 369 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: fet Lana into her private chamber for a chat. I 370 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: had one too, and she kind of almost hypnotized me. 371 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: You describe it about how you ended up kissing her hand, Yes, 372 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 1: tete a tete hypnosis hand kissing. Olga Vanna wants to 373 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: know spet Lana's beef with tally Esen. Spet Lana bites 374 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 1: her tongue, but Olgavana isn't having it. She suddenly took 375 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: my both hands in ours and pulled me to herself, 376 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: so close that there is almost no spacelift between us. 377 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: I tried to loosen the gripe and to step backward 378 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: a little bit. She held my hands tightly. Algabonna stares 379 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: deeply into Spelana's eyes, locking her into her gaze. She 380 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: began to breathe deeply and slowly, still staring. I lost 381 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 1: all my volition and stood there terrilyzed. Fear entered me 382 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 1: like a cold wave. But I could not move after 383 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: a moment of strain, and broke down in tears, still 384 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: holding my hands. Then something incredibly out of character happens. 385 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: I have done something I would never have done on 386 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: my own accord. I kissed those hands of hers several times. 387 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: Only then did she release me. Who she was pleased 388 00:26:54,520 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 1: stet is shuck. I said goodbye, my tears with my 389 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: poems and left. I could only do that under her 390 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 1: will you know I wouldn't do that, my old sort 391 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 1: of I was scared of her. When Splana returns to Wes, 392 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: she's trembling, crying, Convinced that Olgavana has the power to 393 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 1: hypnotize her into submission. She can never be alone with 394 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 1: her again. She hopes West will hold her, soothe her, 395 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 1: and take her away from this terrible place, but instead 396 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: he chastises her, tells her that it is a privilege 397 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: to live at tally Essen and that if she doesn't 398 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: change her attitude. He doesn't know what the future of 399 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: their marriage will be. Remember, Wes was the first apprentice 400 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: of the Fellowship and he stayed at tally Esen for 401 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 1: close to forty years. He named his cabin Aldebra, which 402 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: means the Follower. He's not going to suddenly change teams 403 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: just because this woman happens to be his wife and 404 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: mother of his child. Before summer's end set Lana takes 405 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 1: a stroll with her little baby to Unity Chapel, a tiny, 406 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: quaint little church just at the bottom of a hill. 407 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 1: Aside from being a lovely spot, Unity Chapel is also 408 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: the Lloyd Wright family Cemetery. It's maybe a few hundred 409 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: feet from where we were staying at Aldebren so we 410 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,239 Speaker 1: strolled down there too at night. I'm gonna pull him 411 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: right here, all right, We're going at night to a 412 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: cemetery and hopefully Bilby ghosts. It was kind of a 413 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: tally essent scavenger hunt my producers and I in the 414 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: middle of Wisconsin in the middle of the night. Odd 415 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: to be stumbling across the tombstones of the different members 416 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: of this weird history that we'd all been sucked into. 417 00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: This is wood Sydney. Yes, oh my god, that's my 418 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: brother's name, Jeffrey. Oh Stu Schwartz. There is a jew here. 419 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: That's comforting. We found the master's grave, Alison May. This 420 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: is Franklin writs grave. And then Adam found stat Lana, 421 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: the first one you found her speed Lana Peters, Daniel Peters, 422 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: William Wesley Peters. Oh my god, stet Lana might have 423 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: come here in the day, not at midnight with a baby, 424 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,719 Speaker 1: not a gaggle of producers. But she stood where I 425 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 1: stood and saw what I saw, her own name spent 426 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: Lana Peters on a gravestone, and it shook her to 427 00:29:54,680 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: her very core. Nice, oh my name Setlana Peters. So, 428 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: oh my god, that's what That's how it will finish. 429 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: Was me, she writes, I was here to repeat this 430 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: woman's life, to marry her former husband. I would surely 431 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: end up one day in something terrible, and perhaps my 432 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: little daughter too. The grave Steed Lana is certain was 433 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: an omen one that meant she was condemned to the 434 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: same fate as the first fet Lana, That baby Olga 435 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: was condemned to the same fate as baby Daniel. It 436 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: must have been terrifying steed Lana had been here before, 437 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: thwarted by fate, trapped in cycles. She thought she'd broken. 438 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: She had risked everything to step out of Stalin's shadow 439 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: to tell her own story, only to find herself sucked 440 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: into the orbit of a woman who reminded her of 441 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 1: her father. She'd taken chances on love, only to have 442 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: her heart broken over and over and exactly the same place. 443 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 1: She had tried to create a new family, only to 444 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: find herself haunted by a woman who had lived her 445 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: same life, who had had her same name. But now 446 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: she had this tiny baby that she had to protect 447 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: at all costs. For stent Lana, it was clear she 448 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: and Olga were under threat, and that threat was Olga Vanna. 449 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,719 Speaker 1: If she wanted them to escape their fate, to not 450 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 1: end up in the ground, she'd have to protect them 451 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 1: from missus Wright. Their lives st Lana was sure depended 452 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: on it. On the next episode of s Lana, svent Lana, 453 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: spent Lana. St Lana is a production of iHeart Podcasts 454 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: and the documentary group I'm Your Host Dan could Rocer. 455 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: The show was written and produced by me Adam Webber, 456 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: Alison Joy and Katherine Isaac. We also serve as executive 457 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: producers at the Documentary Group. Our executive producer is Joe Batzilhouetz, 458 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: with production oversight by Stacy Kleiger an additional support from 459 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: Tom Yellen and Gabrielle tenenbau our iHeart Team is supervising 460 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 1: producer Casey Pegram and executive producer Maya Howard. Editing assistants 461 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: from producers Christina Lorenger and Joey pat Original music by 462 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: Elan Izakov, Production counsel by Slas ekhous dasty Haynes Lockoe, 463 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: clearance counsel by Ballard Sparr. Fact checking assistance by Meghan Trout. 464 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 1: Special thanks to my husband Jordan Siegel and Roger Friedland 465 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: and Harold Zelman, authors of the book The Fellowship, who 466 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: kindly granted permission to include excerpts from their taped interview 467 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 1: with spet Lana Excerpts from sphet Lana Alujeva's book The Faraway. 468 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: Music are performed by Cassie Greer.