Lana Peters, the daughter...

...of Josef Stalin, died last week in -- of all places -- Richland Center, Wisconsin. If you enjoy the Irish sports page obituaries half as much as I do (and no one does), then you have to read hers in the Times today. It involves endless globe-trotting, fortunes gained and lost, religious conversions, and multiple marriages, including one to the former son-in-law of Frank Lloyd Wright. But I think my favorite tidbit is this:

In her teenage years, her father was consumed by the war with Germany and grew distant and sometimes abusive. One of her brothers, Yakov, was captured by the Nazis, who offered to exchange him for a German general. Stalin refused, and Yakov was killed.