Brajesh Singh or Kunwar Brijesh Singh (died 31 October 1966) was an India

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n politician belonging to the Communist Party of India

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. He hailed from the royal family of Kalakankar near Allahabad

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 and his cousin Dinesh Singh

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 was a minister in the India

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n cabinet.

He first married Kunwarani Laxmi Devi, followed by Leela, an Austrian lady, with whom he had a son, Victor Singh , who became a photographer in the United Kingdom. In 1963, while recuperating from bronchitis

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, he met Svetlana Alliluyeva

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, daughter of Joseph Stalin

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. They lived together in Sochi

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, Russia

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, where he was convalescing, though 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 lived until her death in 2011.