“Nina Khrushcheva”
That was also the name of Khrushchev’s wife. Peasant-like in appearance but so likeable personally that she was said to have served as a brake upon N.S.’s wilder rants against the West. His son became an American citizen years ago.
Wonder where the granddaughter is writing from. She’s right, of course, that Putin wants to be Tsar Vladimir I.
According to Wikipedia, she's a professor of media and culture at the New School in New York. It also says she is Khrushchev’s great-granddaughter so I may have been wrong about that.