Besarion Jughashvili

Bessarion ( Besso ) Dzhugashvili (Georgian ბესარიონ ჯუღაშვილი; * 1853 or 1854 in Didi- Lilo, Georgia; † August 25, 1909 in Tbilisi ) was the father of Joseph Stalin. He worked as a staff and freelance shoemaker.

Life

Bessarion Dzhugashvili was born as the son of winemakers Vano Dzhugashvili in the service of the Georgian princes Badoer Matschabeli. His brother Giorgi was murdered by bandits. His grandfather, Sasa Dzhugashvili, was an Ossetian serf from the South Ossetian village of Geri, of the uprising against the Russian annexation of Georgia took part in 1804.

First Bessarion Dzhugashvili worked as artisans in the Shoe Factory G. G. Adelchanows in Tbilisi, then in the shoemaker's workshop of the Armenian Josef Baramow who supplied the Russian garrison in Gori. After 1872, he went in Gori with its own shoe-making workshop independently, employed ten workers and various apprentices.

On May 17, 1872 he married Ketevan Geladse. With her he had three children: Mikhail ( born February 14, 1875), Giorgi ( born December 24, 1876) and Iosseb (December 6, 1878), the future leaders of the CPSU and dictator Stalin. The two first-born died a few months after birth. Only the Third Born survived. Family life was initially marked by prosperity. In the early 1880s, however, he became the cantankerous alcoholic, who laid out his money in booze and his wife and son beat regularly. 1888 left Dschughaschwili Ketevan Geladse without divorce.

Also Dschugaschwilis work suffered from the regular consumption of alcohol. His shoemaking workshop was obtained not by his own work, but by the apprentices alive. After he shattered the window of a pub and the local police chief Dawritschewi had attacked with a Schusterahle, he was expelled from Gori and found again in the Tiflis shoe factory Adelkhanov work. His son Joseph, he met the last time, when he tried to organize a strike in the shoe factory of his father.

He died in Tiflis Mikhailov Hospital where he was treated for tuberculosis, colitis and chronic lung inflammation. He was buried in Telavi.

Dzhugashvili spoke beside Georgian and Russian, Turkish and Armenian.