Word: ekaterina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Ekaterina Georguvna Djugashvili, 77, mother of Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin; of pneumonia; near Tiflis, Georgia. Wife of a shoemaker, she wanted her son to be a priest, entered him in Tiflis Theological Seminary from which he was expelled for revolutionary activity. On entering the Communist Party he took a new name. Son Stalin, whom she called "Soso," did not attend the funeral. Reported she on his last visit to her in 1935: "We spent the whole day together joking and laughing...
...given this winter in three U. S. cities.* Soviets regard the 28-year-old composer as their ablest musicmaker. His murderous heroine is really a lovable young woman driven to her crimes by incompatible bourgeois surroundings. One sample played last week by Rodzinski follows the scene in which Ekaterina (Lady Macbeth) murders her father-in-law. The second describes two drunken moujiks as they discover her husband's body hidden in a cellar. When audiences can see the spooky doings on the stage they may be impressed by the Shostakovich screeching. But the orchestra bits played last week left...
...first Mrs. Stalin, Ekaterina, died of pneumonia before the 1917 Revolution. In 1919 Josef Stalin, not yet Dictator but already high in the Soviet Government, made a dazzling visit to the still humble shop and home of his old friend Sergei Alliluiev...
...middle-aged woman answered the correspondent's knock, went to fetch Mme Ekaterina Dzhugashvili. Lenin called her son "Stalin" ("Steel") for short, and the name has stuck, but the Man of Steel's proper name is Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili...