Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held ... Personal life and characteristics. Ethnically Georgian, Stalin grew up speaking the Georgian language, ...

Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. Subscribe Now. In about 1904 Stalin had married a pious Georgian girl, Ekaterina Svanidze. She died some three years later and left a son, Jacob, whom his father treated with contempt, calling him a weakling after an unsuccessful suicide attempt in the late 1920s; when ...

04/09/2019 · The son of Besarion Jughashvili, a cobbler, and Ketevan Geladze, a washerwoman, Stalin was a frail child. At age 7, he contracted smallpox, leaving his face scarred. A few years later he was...

Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia. He was the only surviving son of Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a cobbler who first practiced his craft in a village shop but later in a shoe factory in the city. Stalin's father died in 1891. Stalin's mother, Ekaterina, a religious and illiterate (unable ...

Stalin’s political actions are well-known, but his personal life is less discussed. 1. He refused to save his son when he was captured. Stalin was a ruthless man.

27/02/2022 · Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1879 in Gorgi, Georgia. Throughout his life, he would rise from a poor peasant to the leader of an industrialized global superpower. As a child, it was rumored that Stalin was often mistreated and bullied by fellow classmates and peers.

31/08/2017 · Stalin (allegedly) appointed chief scientist Ilya Ivanov (1870-1932) to create hybrid ape-man of “immense strength, but with an underdeveloped brain.” When Ivanov was unable to deliver, he was arrested and exiled to Kazakhstan. [9] Stalin was hit by a horse-drawn carriage twice as a child, which led to permanent damage of his left arm.

The personal life of Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) was tragic. As a youth, Stalin attended a Russian Orthodox Seminary, as his mother wanted him to become priest. He learned harsh discipline, but eventually dropped out. Stalin's first wife, Kato, died of typhus in 1907. They had one son together.

Twenty-four-year-old Stalin fell in love and desperately wanted to marry Kato, a Georgian woman from a poor family, who at the time was just 16. His proposal was accepted on one condition - that...

As practice shows, the more time passes after the death of a well-known historical personality - the more myths that come to life. So it happened with the most iconic figure of the USSR - Joseph Stalin. In addition to disputes about whether he was a cruel executioner or a savior of the nation, many are interested in his personal life.