Joseph Stalin was born in Georgia and married twice, with three children, the eldest son Yakov, who was captured by the Germans during World War II and died in a concentration camp; the second son, Vasily, who was imprisoned after Stalin's death and died of a sudden heart attack in March 1962; and the youngest daughter, Svetlana, who fled from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1967 and has been living in seclusion since 2011.
On March 5, 1953, Stalin died of a "sudden cerebral hemorrhage", leaving his descendants with an inheritance of only 30,000 rubles, which is about 1.5 million rubles ($21,000) according to the current price index. Now that nearly 70 years have passed since the death of the great man, what kind of life will Stalin's descendants live?
Stalin's great-grandson Yakov, painter
Stalin's great-grandson Yakov was a painter who was a descendant of Stalin's eldest son. Yakov studied in Moscow, studied painting in Tbilisi and London, and is now a painter, with many paintings often exhibited in England and Georgia. Today, 48 years old and living in Tbilisi, Georgia, the painter never shys away from media attention or hides his life and work from the public, arguing that, as Stalin's great-grandson, he has an obligation to refute anti-Stalinist lies and defend the purity of history. At the moment, he does not want to return to Russia as a foreigner, and he demands the return of his "normal Russian citizenship".
Great-grandson Vesalion, director
Stalin's great-grandson, Vesalion, was the younger brother of the painter Yakov, and he is currently a film director. He spent his youth at the 23rd School in Moscow, and after graduating from secondary school attended the Agricultural College in Georgia. Vessarion joined the army and after retiring from the army, he studied screenwriting and directing in Moscow, and his two most famous films were "Stone" and "Yakov, Son of Stalin". Vesalion came to the United States in 2003 under the pretext of asking for political asylum, and he has lived in the United States ever since.
Little granddaughter Chris Evans
Stalin's young granddaughter Chris Evans, born in the United States, is 49 years old, works as a general manager in a small company, she is one of the most rebellious of Stalin's descendants, Chris Evans originally named "Olga", when she was 16 years old, she married, then changed her surname and name, completely broke off relations with the Stalin family, she did not like the media and Russia, when talking about Stalin she said: "I hate my grandfather, he is a monster." Evans lives in Portland, gets tattoos, perforates, dyes her hair, and lives her own "full" life, loves dogs, drugs and Mexican food, never interacts with relatives in Russia, and does not accompany her mother even before her death.
Grandson Yuri, engineer
Stalin's grandson Yuri, who was married, was an engineer. In 2016, DNA comparisons determined that Yuri was Stalin's grandson. It turned out that during the early revolutionary movement of the Soviets, Stalin was exiled to Siberia by the Tsarist government in 1910, where he met Lydia Pereprigina, who had left exile when Yuri's father, Alexander, was born. Stalin never saw this son, and stalin searched for them many times in his subsequent revolutionary career, but to no avail. Yuri had worked with mines all his life, he was a mine engineer, in charge of mine development projects, and as Stalin's grandson, Yuri did not think this blood relationship was worth boasting about, on the contrary, he rarely talked about his grandfather.
Eldest granddaughter Catherine and husband
Born in 1950, Stalin's eldest granddaughter, Catherine, did not follow her mother to the United States, but lived with her father, who traveled throughout the Altai Mountains, the Caucasus and Lake Baikal, where she worked as a geographer for a long time on volcanoes. Since her husband's suicide, Catherine has lived a life of seclusion, rarely going out, reluctant to meet with neighbors or reporters, and continuing to work at the Volcano Institute, often hiking to active volcanoes to investigate and study, according to colleagues, Catherine is reticent and rarely appears in the office.
Wu Hongming compiled from Russian UCRAZY