Ekaterine Giorgis asuli Geladze[a] (1856/1858 [2][b] – 4 June 1937) was the mother of Joseph Stalin. She was commonly known as Keke. Born into a family of peasants outside of Gori, in modern Georgia, she married Besarion Jughashvili, a cobbler, and had three sons; only the youngest, Ioseb, lived.

Stalin’s mother Ekaterine Geladze — who went by the name of Keke — did not speak Russian and was disappointed in her son’s achievements. Geladze’s father — a serf who belonged to a Georgian...

The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style), until the October Revolution on 7 November 1917 (25 October).

Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili[a] (c. 1850 – 25 August 1909) was the father of Joseph Stalin. Born into a peasant family of serfs in Didi Lilo in Georgia, he moved to Tbilisi at a young age to be a shoemaker, working in a factory.

Stalin was a child of a poor cobbler (Besarion Jughashvili) and a deeply religious mother (Ekaterine “Keke” Geladze), who dreamed her son would be a priest.

Ekaterine Giorgis asuli Geladze was the mother of Joseph Stalin. She was commonly known as Keke.

May 7, 2007 · Josef Stalin, the monstrous Soviet dictator responsible for the deaths of millions, was a "sensitive child" with a love of flowers, his mother's memoirs have revealed. Stalin was born in Georgia...

Ekaterine Giorgis asuli Geladze (5 February 1858 – 4 June 1937), commonly known as "Keke", was the mother of Joseph Stalin.

Stalin and Keke Ekaterina (Keke) Geladze was born in a small Orthodox village in Georgia, at the age of 17 she married Vissarion (Beso) Dzhugashvili. Her two children died shortly after birth, and the third - Joseph - survived. After the birth of Joseph, Vissarion began to drink heavily, so Keke abandoned him.

May 17, 2012 · One of these remarkable documents is a transcript of the memories of Ekaterine (Keke) Jughashvili, Stalin’s mother, which was dictated in 1935, two years before her death.