Keke Geladze
(born c. 1856–1860; died 1937)
BIRTH
c. 1856–1860 (sources differ)
PLACE
Unknown
NAME
Ekaterine (Keke) Giorgis asuli Geladze
DEATH
June 4, 1937
PLACE
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
FAMILY
MOTHER
Joseph Stalin
(1878-1953)
HUSBAND
Besarion Jughashvili
(c. 1850–1909)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
EASTERN ORTHODOX
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Ketevan “Keke” Geladze was Joseph Stalin’s mother. Accounts disagree on whether she was born in 1856 or 1860.
EARLY LIFE
She supported herself and her son with sewing and laundry work after her marriage to cobbler Besarion Jughashvili deteriorated.
CAREER
DEATH
Ekaterine 'Keke' Geladze, the mother of Joseph Stalin, died in Tbilisi on June 4, 1937. Contemporary funeral footage records her procession and burial. She was interred at the Mtatsminda Pantheon in Tbilisi; the reviewed evidence does not establish a reliable immediate cause of death.
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