Besarion Jughashvili

Besarion Jughashvili
ბესარიონ ჯუღაშვილი (Georgian) Виссарион Джугашвили (Russian)
Unconfirmed photo from Jughashvili's grave
Born	Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili c. 1850 Didi Lilo, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	25 August 1909 (aged 59) Tbilisi, Russian Empire
Other names	Beso
Occupation	Shoemaker
Spouse	Ekaterine Geladze
Children	Mikheil Giorgi Ioseb
Parent	Vano Jughashvili (father)

Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili^[a] (c. 1850 – 25 August 1909) was the father of Joseph Stalin. Born into a peasant family of serfs in Didi Lilo in Georgia, he moved to Tbilisi at a young age to be a shoemaker, working in a factory. He was invited to set up his own shop in Gori, where he met and married Ekaterine Geladze, with whom he had three sons; only the youngest, Ioseb, lived. Once known as a "clever and proud" man, Jughashvili's shop failed and he developed a serious drinking problem, wherefore he left his family and moved back to Tbilisi in 1884, working in a factory again. He had little contact with either his wife or son after that point, and little is known of his life from then on, except that he died in 1909 of cirrhosis.
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