Everything about Yakov Dzhugashvili totally explained
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili (
Russian: Яков Иосифович Джугашвили) (
March 18,
1907–
April 14,
1943) was one of
Joseph Stalin's three known children (along with
Svetlana Alliluyeva and
Vasily Dzhugashvili). Yakov was the son of Stalin's first wife,
Ekaterina Svanidze.
Biography
Yakov was born in the village of
Borji (near
Kutaisi) in
Georgia, then part of
Imperial Russia. Until the age of fourteen, Yakov was raised by his aunt in
Tbilisi. In
1921, Yakov’s uncle
Alexander Svanidze urged him to leave for
Moscow to acquire a higher education. Yakov only spoke
Georgian and after his arrival in Moscow he commenced with learning the
Russian language, aiming to apply for University studies.
Yakov and his father Stalin never got along. Allegedly once Stalin referred to Yakov as a "mere cobbler." Later according to Yakov's stepmother
Nadezhda Alliluyeva she saw a young girl running away from their Moscow
dacha in tears. When she entered she saw a despairing Yakov looking near faint in the room. He ran immediately to his bedroom. It turned out that the girl was Yakov's Jewish fiancée, and when they told Stalin of their engagement he became enraged.
While Stalin and his wife were arguing about this a shot was heard from Yakov's room. He tried to kill himself with a shot in the head but due to frayed nerves from his father's tirade only managed in wounding himself. While she tended to his wounds and sent for a doctor all his father said was, "He can't even do that right."
Dzhugashvili did marry and was survived by two children. His son, Yevgeni, gave many interviews about his grandfather. He also had a daughter,
Galina, who died in 2007
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Dzhugashvili served in the
Red Army during
World War II. He was captured by the
Wehrmacht during the war. The
Germans offered to exchange Yakov for
Friedrich Paulus, the German Field Marshal captured by the Soviets after the
Battle of Stalingrad, but Stalin turned the offer down, allegedly saying "I don't change the soldier for the marshal"; others credit him with saying "I have no son," to this offer.
It isn't clear when and how he died. The Germans stated officially that Yakov died by running into an
electric fence in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was being held. Some have contended that Yakov committed
suicide at the camp while others have suggested that he was murdered.
The United States Defense Department was in possession of documents which indicated that Yakov Dzhugashvili was shot trying to escape, which were shown to his daughter Galina Dzhugashvili in 2003, but which she rejected, claiming that her father was never taken prisoner by the Germans, but rather was killed in battle in 1941. She continuously maintained that any photographs or letters indicating her father was at the prison camp were Nazi propaganda.
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