Kato Svanidze
First wife of Josef Stalin (1885-1907) · Russia · Died at 22
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Something wrong?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.
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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.
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