STALIN JOSEPH: (1878-1953) Soviet Dictator. Leader of the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the C...

STALIN JOSEPH: (1878-1953) Soviet Dictator. Leader of the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party 1922-52. Rare and unusual A.N., `Drawing by Setanka the Housekeeper«, in Cyrillic, one page, 5.5 x 3,8 page removed from a notebook. The document being a colourful drawing, in the hand of Stalin«s daughter Svetlana Iosifovna, showing a ship with its name in red letters `Aurora«, beneath a childish written text at the heading, in capital red letters, stating `Aurora! Aurora, Hurry to Storm the Winter Palace!«, in Cyrillic. Rare autograph note by Stalin, boldly written in pencil, to the lower border of the document, underlining the last two words. The page shows a wheel and wing watermark. With few extremely small pinholes, and a very small professional repair to the verso, otherwise, G £4000-6000 Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina (1926-2011), also known as Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, and later known as Lana Peters. Youngest child and only daughter of Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. It has often been reported that she was one of the very few persons Stalin deeply loved. Winston Churchill recalled her as `A handsome red-haired girl, who kissed her father dutifully..« Svetlana was raised by a nanny when her mother committed suicide when she was only six. She did not learn the real cause of her mother«s death until she was fifteen. According to Svetlana«s memoir ''Twenty Letters to a Friend'' (1967), Stalin used to affectionately call her ''Setanka the Housekeeper'' as annotated on the present document. Svetlana defected in 1967 and became a U.S citizen. She only returned to the Soviet Union in 1984, and in 1992 became British citizen. Aurora was a 1900 Russian cruiser. It was considered a symbol of the 1917 Revolution for firing the shot to signal the revolutionaries to storm the Winter Palace. The Aurora is currently preserved as a museum ship in Saint Petersburg.