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Besarion Jughashvili

1850 - 1909

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Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Besarion Jughashvili is the 29th most popular celebrity (up from 32nd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Georgia (up from 33rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Georgian Celebrity.

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Among celebrities, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 29 out of 265. Before him are Anna Anderson, Rosalia Lombardo, Keke Geladze, Dodi Fayed, Marie Duplessis, and Rodney King. After him are Jacques Mayol, Kim Kardashian, Sarah Knauss, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, and Rosemary Kennedy.

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Among people born in 1850, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 24. Before him are Oliver Heaviside, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Frances Xavier Cabrini, William Morris Davis, and Lafcadio Hearn. After him are Ignác Goldziher, César Ritz, Victoriano Huerta, Sami Frashëri, Mikhail Chigorin, and Ivan Vazov. Among people deceased in 1909, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 14. Before him are Hermann Ebbinghaus, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Peder Severin Krøyer, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia. After him are Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Francisco Ferrer, Emil Erlenmeyer, Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Felice Beato, and Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 30 out of 406. Before him are Giya Kancheli (1935), Pharnavaz I of Iberia (-326), Bidzina Ivanishvili (1956), Bagrat III of Georgia (960), Herbert Backe (1896), and Nakşidil Sultan (1768). After him are Ilia Chavchavadze (1837), Nicholas Marr (1864), George III of Georgia (1200), Mirian III of Iberia (265), Victor Ambartsumian (1908), and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866).

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Among CELEBRITIES In Georgia

Among celebrities born in Georgia, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 2. Before him are Keke Geladze (1858).

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