Her Moscow Guest List Had 25 Names. Beside 16, a Later Note Read SHOT or ARRESTED: Marjorie Post

Her Moscow Guest List Had 25 Names. Beside 16, a Later Note Read SHOT or ARRESTED: Marjorie Post For half a century, the caption under her photograph has barely changed. The cereal heiress who dined with Stalin. But a historian who went through her private papers found that Marjorie Merriweather Post never actually met him. What she did in Moscow is harder to sit with. On March 23, 1937, she seated three marshals of the Red Army at her table in Spaso House. Two months later, one of them was arrested. By June he was dead. She bought church chalices out of Soviet storerooms at one ruble a gram, weighed on a feed store scale. She mailed a warm thank-you letter to the Molotovs five months before her closest Soviet friend was arrested. And she kept the guest list from that dinner, twenty-five names pasted into a scrapbook. Beside sixteen of them, there is a later note. Chapters: 00:00 — The guest list 02:59 — Act I — The Cereal King's Daughter 07:23 — Act II — The Facade 11:07 — Act III — The Guest List 19:39 — Act IV — The Reckoning 22:48 — Act V — The Aftermath Source Material Visual material used in this production is obtained from publicly accessible archives, including Wikimedia Commons, Europeana and the Library of Congress (Historic American Buildings Survey). Copyright & Fair Use Notice This channel incorporates copyrighted material under the principles of Fair Use as recognized by U.S. law. Under Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act, certain uses of copyrighted works such as for analysis, commentary, educational purposes, research, and reporting are permitted without prior authorization from the copyright holder. Sources Lindsay T. Inge, Culture and Diplomacy: Marjorie Merriweather Post and Soviet-American Relations, 1933–1939 (University of Maryland, 2016) — https://api.drum.lib.umd.edu/server/a... Hillwood Museum, Marjorie Merriweather Post: A Timeline, 1887–1973 — http://volunteer.hillwoodmuseum.org/w... U.S. Department of State, The Diplomatic Legacy of Marjorie Merriweather Post — https://diplomacy.state.gov/stories/t... Time, Russia: Farewell (1938) — https://time.com/archive/6779615/russ... PBS NewsHour, Why this American cereal heiress amassed a huge Russian art collection — https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/why... #documentary #history #MarjorieMerriweatherPost #Stalin