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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.
Kato Svanidze was the first wife of Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. Her untimely demise is considered a significant event in world history as some historians believe that it led to Stalin’s ruthlessness and inhumane ways.
Ekaterine “Kato” Svanidze Joseph Stalin, leader of the U.S.S.R. from 1929 to 1953 and one of the most powerful men in history, married twice. His first wife was Ekaterina Svanidze, and his second wife was Nadezhda Alliluyeva.
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.
Stalin's first wife was a laundry woman and dressmaker called Yekaterina (Kato) Svanidze. The future "leader of the nations" loved her dearly, but at the age of 22 she died of typhus....
According to Simon Montefiore’s biography Young Stalin, the future ruler adored his first wife Kato Svanidze whom he married in Georgia in 1906 and who died of to typhus 16 months later....
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili (31 March [O.S. 18 March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family.
