Word: ekaterina
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...ambassador began. He smiled pleasantly. A newsreel man assured him that his English was better than Molotov's. If that flattered him, he did not show it. But he managed to get out that he had been Soviet ambassador to China from 1939 to 1944, that his wife, Ekaterina, would join him in January...
Joseph Stalin has been married twice: first, in 1903, to a Georgian girl named Ekaterina Svanidze, who died in 1907, and then to Nadya Sergeievna Alleluieva, who died in 1932. By his first wife he had a son, Yasha Djugashvili, now in his thirties, an obscure engineer in Moscow. Father and son do not hit it off. By Mrs. Stalin No. 2 he had a son and daughter: Vasya, now 19, and Svetlana, 14. Good-looking Daughter Svetlana is the apple of her father's eye. The two children go to school, but live in the Kremlin. Joseph...
...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...