The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the vast Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a poor shoemaker, and his wife Yekaterina, who augmented her husband's ...

07/07/2018 · The son of Besarion Jughashvili, a cobbler, and Ketevan Geladze, a washerwoman, Joseph was a frail child. At age 7, he contracted smallpox, leaving his face scarred.

Stalin was not just ‘abused’ as a child, his mother veered wildly between doting and volatile. His father would regularly kidnap him from his seminary school while drunk and haul him off to a shoemaking factory.

Stalin's parents were poor and he had a rough childhood. At the age of 7 he got the disease smallpox. He survived, but his skin was covered in scars. He later went to seminary to become a priest, however, he was expelled for being a radical. The Revolution After leaving the seminary, Stalin joined up with the Bolshevik revolutionaries.

Stalin contracted smallpox as a young boy, scaring his face for the rest of his life. Because of this, he received the nickname "pocky" by his friends. In his teenage years, he received a scholarship to attend the Tiflis Theological Seminary in the Georgian capital to study the priesthood in the Georgian Orthodox Church .

07/04/2020 · Yakov was born on March 18, 1907 in Borji, Georgia, and was Stalin’s first child. Growing up in Georgia, far from the capital of the USSR, Yakov Dzhugashvili had a colder relationship with his father, a fact which he will keep throughout his life and which we will observe in the following.