Interesting biography of Stalin

Stalin: Unknown facts of the sources of “Stalin” and “Koba” exist two versions about the origin of the surname Dzhugashvili: according to the first version, this is the Ossetian-Georgian surname from the Ossetian word “dzug”-“Otara”, “flock”, and the second version-“Juga” is the ancient Georgian word meaning “steel”. From here, according to historians, the pseudonym "Stalin" came out.

In total, over the years of underground activity, Stalin had more than ten nicknames and pseudonyms - “Koba”, “Vasily”, “Ivanovich”, etc. The most famous is “Koba”, was invented by Stalin himself under the impression of the novel by the novel by the Georgian writer Alexander Kazbegi “Fatherland”, where the main character, the leader of the highlanders, is called Koboy.

Photo by REGNUM. Stalin's father first worked at the tanny factory, then became a shoemaker. Stalin's mother was from the former serfs and worked as a laundress. In a conversation with journalists of Western newspapers in the years, Stalin repeatedly said: “I, by the way, are a real proletarian. My surname ends on “-Shvili”, and who has the surname on “-Dze” and “-Adze”-come from nobles and bourgeois.

” Photo Zen. Osopa left traces on Stalin's face for life. Also, due to the underfloor is the movements of the arms and legs for the whole life. When on November 9 of the year already a prominent revolutionary Kobu was sent to exile, he fell ill with a typhoid in Vologda on the way to Solvychegodsk. This finally undermined his health, and with him the chances of becoming a military revolutionary, and not the theoretician and administrator.

In February, in exile in Siberia, the draft commission officially recognized him not suitable for the military health service. Parents made this out of mercantile reasons, realizing that the spiritual class lives more prosper than workers and peasants, and if the boy is able to study, he should study. At the school, Dzhugashvili was considered one of the best students, ending with each class with a commendable sheet.

Having inherited a musical voice and hearing from his mother, he sang in the choir of the school, and subsequently led the choir and helped the conductor. Noting the successes of the student and taking into account the difficult financial situation of the Dzhugashvili family, the school appointed Joseph Styropendy - 3 rubles per month. Nevertheless, at the summer, Dzhugashvili was disappointed in religion.

This happened under the influence of Darwin's books, as well as physical punishments and humiliation from teachers. However, Joseph graduated with honors and, as the best student, in June was enrolled in the Tiflis Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he studied another 5 years before the exception. In Tiflis at that time there were many political exiles from Moscow and St. Petersburg, which created a certain atmosphere of revolutionary in the city.

These exile and forbidden literature carried Dzhugashvili on the revolutionary path. Despite the apparent community of the interests of friendship between exile fighters with the regime did not come out. After some time, Sverdlov in letters from exile calls Stalin “big individualist”, “arrogant Georgian”, “petty”. Later they completely stopped communicating after a quarrel. As a result, almost two years before the arrival of another revolutionary - Lev Kamenev - Stalin lived in exile in complete solitude, engaged in hunting and fishing, although Yakov Sverdlov suggested that he be reconciled.

Stalin had warm friendly relations with Kamenev in exile. What did not prevent him from repressing Kamenev later. Photo Pinterest. Sometimes could drink cognac. I did not drink other alcohol. For all the years, according to the memoirs of his security officers, he went through only twice - at the birthday of S. Stemenko and at the commemoration, A. Stalin believed that in society it was necessary to fight not with alcohol, but with the lack of other opportunities for people's rest.

He believed that it was important to organize the leisure of the proletariat so that the sport and cultural rest took all the free time of citizens, leaving no time for drunkenness. At the insistence of Stalin in every city, even the smallest, the Soviet government sought to open a park of culture and rest with reading rooms, gaming halls, dance floors, summer scenes, frozen kiosks, attractions.

Each enterprise and institution had a sports team. Each factory and each factory had and contained a stadium. They played absolutely all possible games: from bast shoes and checkers to football and hockey. Photo by Fenixclub. Farsi Iranian understood a little. In the x years, he independently studied French, the level of knowledge is unknown. Photo by Bigpicture.

In adulthood, he tried to read at least pages daily. I read completely multidirectional works - textbooks on economics, metallurgy, electrical engineering, shipbuilding, dictionaries, geography courses, the works of classical historians, starting from antiquity. After the death of Stalin, about 5.5 thousand were discovered. In total, in his life, according to various estimates of people from his near environment, he read about 20 thousand.