Nadezhda Alliluyeva was a Bolshevik secretary and student who became Joseph Stalin’s second wife. Raised in a revolutionary household, she worked for party leaders, including Lenin, before studying at Moscow’s Industrial Academy with the aim of becoming an engineer. Its immediate circumstances are known largely through later personal accounts. On several occasions, Alliluyeva reportedly contemplated leaving Stalin, and after an argument, she fatally shot herself early in the morning of 9 November 1932. In November 1932, Alliluyeva was only a few weeks away from finishing her course at the academy. Their troubled marriage ended with her suicide in November 1932. She married Stalin in 1919, when she was seventeen and he was in his forties. In 1929 she enrolled at the Industrial Academy in Moscow to study synthetic fibers, seeking a career of her own. She was reportedly troubled by the hardships caused by collectivization and by her strained marriage. On the night of November 8-9, 1932, after a quarrel with Stalin at a dinner party, she died by suicide in their Kremlin apartment. The official announcement concealed the cause of death. She was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.