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TIL American architect William Wesley Peters was married twice, both times to a woman named Svetlana. The first was Svetlana Hinzenberg Wright, daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. The second was Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin.

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