Brajesh Singh

Brajesh Singh (Hindi: ब्रजेश सिंह, or Kunwar Brijesh Singh; died 31 October 1966) was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India. He hailed from the royal family of Kalakankar near Allahabad[1] and his nephew Dinesh Singh was a minister in the Indian cabinet.[2]

Not to be confused with Brijesh Singh.
Kunwar Brajesh Singh
PredecessorRaja Ramesh Singh
Died1966
Burial
Kalakankar
SpouseKunwarani Laxmi Devi
Leela (an Austrian woman)
Svetlana Alliluyeva
IssueAsha Pal
Usha Pande
Victor Singh
House Bisen, Rajput
FatherRaja Ramesh Singh
ReligionHinduism

He first married Kunwarani Laxmi Devi, followed by Leela, an Austrian woman, with whom he had a son, Victor Singh, who became a photographer in England. In 1963, while recuperating from bronchitis, he met Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin. They lived together in Sochi, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic part of the Soviet Union, where he was convalescing, although they were not officially married. He died 31 October 1966 and Svetlana brought his ashes to Kalakankar to be immersed in the Ganges. She later defected to the United States in 1967, where she died in 2011.[3]

References
  1. Kalakankar taluq Genealogy and history Archived 8 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. "Obituary: Dinesh Singh". The Independent. 2 December 1995.
  3. Lukas, J. Anthony (20 March 1967). "Stalin's Daughter Called Indian Village a Paradise". The New York Times.


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