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Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili [a] (31 March [O.S. 18 March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family.
Vasily was born on 21 March 1921, the son of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. [1] He had an older half-brother, Yakov Dzhugashvili (born 1907), from his father's first marriage to Kato Svanidze, and a younger sister, Svetlana, born in 1926. [2] [3] The family also took in Artyom Sergeyev, the son of Fyodor Sergeyev, a close friend of ...
Svanidze was subsequently arrested for her revolutionary connections, and shortly after her release—on 18 March 1907—she gave birth to Stalin's son, Yakov. [169] Stalin nicknamed his new-born son "Patsana". [170] By 1907—according to Robert Service—Stalin had established himself as "Georgia's leading Bolshevik". [171]
He was the son of Yakov Dzhugashvili, the eldest son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and gained notice as a defender of his grandfather's reputation. In the 1999 elections of the Russian State Duma, he was one of the faces of the Stalin Bloc – For the USSR, a league of communist parties. He resided in Georgia, his grandfather's homeland.
In 1929, Stalin's son Yakov unsuccessfully attempted suicide, shooting himself in the chest and narrowly missing his heart; his failure earned the contempt of Stalin, who is reported to have brushed off the attempt by saying "He can't even shoot straight."
After years of his fathers torment, Joseph Stalin's son tried to kill himself in Stalin's house. When Stalin's wife informed him of his son's attempted suicide by gun, Stalin's comment, loud ...
In 1938, Stalin ordered Alyosha and his wife, Maria, to be arrested. He demanded Alyosha admit he was a German spy, but Alyosha refused. [34] Alyosha was executed in 1941, while Mariko and Maria were shot in 1942. [35] Alyosha and Maria's son, Ivan Svanidze, was briefly married to Stalin's only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. He filed for ...
Her son Vasily was also greatly affected: although Alliluyeva had not played a major role in raising her children, she still showed interest in their well-being. After her death, Stalin doted upon Svetlana but virtually ignored Vasily, who began to drink from a young age and ultimately died of alcohol-related issues in 1962. [84] [85]