# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kato-svanidze
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:49:52.163Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/kato-svanidze"
name: "Kato Svanidze"
slug: "kato-svanidze"
description: "She died at twenty-two, leaving Stalin with a son he would abandon and a grief friends said changed him. The first wife, before the purges and the terror — when he was still Ioseb and she was the seamstress from Racha who briefly pulled him toward something softer."
tagline: "First wife of Josef Stalin (1885–1907)"
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gender: "female"
birthDate: "1885-04-02"
deathDate: "1907-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Racha in western Georgia on 2 April 1885, Ekaterine Svanidze moved to Tiflis with her siblings and worked as a seamstress. Her brother Alexander, a confidant of the young revolutionary Ioseb Jughashvili, introduced them in 1905. They married in 1906; she gave birth to their son Yakov a few months later. The family fled to Baku to avoid arrest, but she fell ill there and returned to Tiflis in 1907, dying shortly after — likely from typhoid or tuberculosis — on 22 November, at twenty-two. Stalin, who had deeply cared for her, left Yakov to be raised by the Svanidze family and plunged fully into revolution, rarely seeing them again.