After The Death of Stalin
After her father's death in 1953, she worked as a lecturer and translator in Moscow. Her training was in history and political thought, a subject she was forced to study by her father, although her passion was literature and writing. Stalin forbade her to be taught in these subjects. She had also studied four languages since childhood, including German, French and English and was fluent in all. She was granted a pension with which she supported herself and her two children.
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