Svetlana! Svetlana!
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Show overview
Svetlana! Svetlana! has published 11 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode during 2023. That works out to roughly 6 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 33 min and 35 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Society & Culture show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 3.1 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by iHeartPodcasts.
From the publisher
In 1967, Joseph Stalin’s daughter braved her way over the Iron Curtain, secret memoir in tow, and landed in America as the Cold War’s most famous defector. At 40 years old, Svetlana had left everything behind for a new life in the West and the chance to finally share her story. What she found instead — a controversial commune in the Arizona desert built by Frank Lloyd Wright, a whirlwind marriage dictated by destiny, and a Montenegrin matriarch with dreams of immortality — was far more complicated. In Svetlana! Svetlana! neurotic playwright Dan Kitrosser unravels the weird and wild life of his greatest muse.
Latest Episodes
S1 Ep 10The Last Laugh
After pinballing around the world for two decades, the only thing Svetlana has left is her story. But what will it take for the world to hear it?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 Ep 9Back to the USSR
Svetlana keeps searching for a place that feels like home. Could it be America? Could it be England? Could it be… Russia and the children that she left behind 18 years ago?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 Ep 8Divorce Taliesin Style
Svetlana reaches a breaking point at Taliesin. But as she tries to move forward into the next chapter of her life, her past continues to haunt her.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 Ep 7Baby Bump
Just a few months into her whirlwind marriage, Svetlana finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at 44 — much to the displeasure of Olgivanna.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 Ep 6Mother Knows Best
The honeymoon phase ends quickly for newlywed Svetlana as she chafes against communal life at Taliesin — and its overbearing leader.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 Ep 5The Montenegrin
Who is Olga Ivanovna Lazović Hinzenberg Lloyd Wright? And why is her name so short? In this episode, we learn about a woman who survived revolutions and revelations, all in the pursuit of art and immortality.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 Ep 4The Very Special Wedding Episode!
It’s been only three weeks since Svetlana first set foot at Taliesin West, and she’s about to marry Frank Lloyd Wright’s protégé: William Wesley Peters. Could this be happily ever after?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 Ep 3Come to Desert, Find Peace
A strange and mystical invitation lures Svetlana to Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture commune in the Arizona desert. And so, Svetlana embarks on a new journey that will alter the course of her life forever. Dan goes there too and gets in the wrong Honda.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 Ep 2Only One Year
After her dramatic defection, Svetlana settles into her new life in America. She’s an overnight millionaire, trading communism for capitalism — a bestselling author with the attention of the world. But everyone from her translator to the KBG to a new lover is driving her nuts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 Ep 1The Princess of the Kremlin
In the midst of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, decides to flee Mother Russia to start a new life in America. But with the KGB on her tail, how on earth is she going to get out? Playwright Dan Kitrosser unravels her story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Introducing: "Svetlana! Svetlana!"
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