Besarion Jughashvili
(c. 1850–1909)
BIRTH
c. 1850
PLACE
Unknown
NAME
Besarion (Beso) Jughashvili
DEATH
August 12, 1909
PLACE
Mikhail Hospital, Tbilisi, Russian Empire
FAMILY
FATHER
Joseph Stalin
(1878-1953)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Besarion “Beso” Jughashvili was Joseph Stalin’s father, a Georgian shoemaker. His death date is reported inconsistently, so no precise date is entered here.
EARLY LIFE
He worked as a cobbler in Gori. Biographical accounts describe the family’s poverty and his increasing absence from the household.
CAREER
DEATH
A Georgian archival study identifies a hospital record reporting that he died of liver cirrhosis on August 12, 1909, at Mikhail Hospital in Tbilisi. It places his burial at Kukia Cemetery; the exact grave is lost. The often identified grave in Telavi is not his.
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