Word: georguvna
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...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's cackling, gossipy mother, old Ekaterina Georguvna Djugashvili, whom Soviet and foreign journalists used to dote on interviewing, died in Tiflis in 1937. She had for several years lived in an apartment in the former palace of the Tsar's Georgian viceroy...
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...
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