to Svetlana.

LAMB: But you told a very interesting story in here about where she is today and where she lives.
Trace that one.

MONTEFIORE: Well, she`s been all over the place. You know, she`s had a -- she`s had a very
turbulent life, I think. She`s in Wisconsin now, I believe. And I did try -- I approached her, but I think
she`s just tired of being Stalin`s daughter, which is understandable.

She left the Soviet Union twice, she married an American at one point, called Peters. She returned
to Russia, she returned to -- she was in England. She`s been everywhere. And recently she just moved to
America. She`s had a terrible life and, you know, being Stalin`s family has been a sort of curse.

That`s partly of what this book is a story of,so on really -- I mean, one had to have all three to really put
this together, and create this new picture of what it was like in the -- in Stalin`s court.

LAMB: Because you were talking about Beria, go to the end, at Stalin`s last couple of days.

MONTEFIORE: Yes.

LAMB: And set that up. By the way, before you do that, how long did he live? Stalin?

MONTEFIORE: Seventy-four years.

LAMB: From when to when?

MONTEFIORE: 1878 to 1953; 5th of March, 1953, he died.

LAMB: And how much -- how many of those years was he in power?

MONTEFIORE: Well, he was really in power for much earlier than anyone realized. Lenin died
in 1924, but one of the interesting things when you look at this, he was really running the Soviet Union from
1923,