Kato Svanidze
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Ekaterine "Kato" Svanidze was the first wife of Joseph Stalin and the mother of his eldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili.
Svanidze c. 1904
Jughashvili in a 1902 mugshot
Funeral of Kato Svanidze, with family and husband Stalin (right)
Yakov Dzhugashvili
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Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was a Georgian-born Soviet engineer and Red Army officer. He was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine
Kato Svanidze
…Ekaterine "Kato" Svanidze (2 April 1885 – 22 November 1907) was the first wife of Joseph Stalin and the mother of his eldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. Born in Racha, in western Georgia, Svanidze eventually moved to Tiflis with her two sisters and brother, and worked as a seamstress. Her brother…
Dzhugashvili in 1941
Father, Ioseb Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin)
Dzhugashvili shortly after being captured