Tengiz Simashvili
Stalin's Lover – Stefania
In a Historical archive Republic of
Georgia I’ve retrieved seemingly ordinary document about Yosef Jughashvili -
Stalin. (He was origin from Georgia – T.S.) It is a letter which is sent by
Baku Gendarmerie Principal Division to Tbilisi on 26th of April
1910. In this letter speech is about sending Gendarmerie registration cards of
Yosef Jughashvili and Stefanie Petrovskaya from Baku to Tiflisi (Tbilisi). (See Document)
Retrieving the document and its further
analysis gave me quite interesting results. The issue is that there is a
registration card of Baku Gendarmerie Principal Division kept in the archive of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia; this card was filled on the name
of Yosef Jughashvili.
There are several photos of Yosef
Jughashvili on the front side of the card – profile, full face and standing
one. (See
Document)
Herewith we have other data filled
according to the paragraphs:
“Age
– 30-32
Birth
year - December 1879 *(date is not mentioned, more
preciously there is date outline, but incomplete. Covered by the photo; this is
one of the first documents where Stalin’s birth year is mentioned by mistake
1879; he was born in 1878, 6 December -T. S.).
Height
–
1 meter and 69 centimeters
Hair
–
color black, curling, thick
Body
structure – thin
Beard
and mustache - chestnut-colored, and etc.
On the second page of the registration
card written as follows:
(See Document #3)
Nickname
–
Koba
First
name, patronymic, last
name – Jughashvili Yosef Besarion
Title
–
pheasant, Gori county of Tbilis province
Love
connection – Petrovskaya
And there are other information too.
As I’ve mentioned above from the content
of documents about Yosef Jughashvili listed above I continued searching in
historical archive funds of Georgia.
Indeed, in a historical archive of
Georgia, in one of the funds of Tbilisi Gendarmerie Principal Division I’ve
found out a registration card filled on the name of Stefania Petrovskaya by
Baku Gendarmerie Principal Division.
Like Yosef Jughashvili’s registration
card, Stefania Petrovskaya’s registration card is filled on 30th of
March 1910, too. Even more, according to the record of registration card,
Stefania Petrovskaya was arrested on the same day 23rd of March 1910
in Baku, the same time when Yosef Jughashvili was arrested.
On the front page of Stefania
Petrovskaya’s registration card is written:
“Age
according to the appearance – 24 years old
Birth
year
– 13th of October 1885
Height
–
1 meter and 61 centimeters
Hair
– color beige, average thick
And etc. (See Document )
On the same page of the card there is a
fingerprint print of Stefania Petrovskaya’s right hand.
On the second page of the registration
card we read:
Nickname
–
(not filled – T.S.)
First
name, patronymic, last name – Petrovskaya Stefania
Title
–
noblewoman, from Odessa
Father
– Leonard
Mother,
maiden surname – deceased
Marriage – single
Love
connection – Jughashvili
and other information.
(See Document )
The card is filled in Baku Gendarmerie
Principal Division on 30th of March 1910.
Only small information is known for the
public about the love affair of noblewoman Stefania and Yosef Jughashvili - Stalin.
Her real photos was partly unknown, too; and it's I think one of the real photo
of Stefania.
Yosef Jughashvili was arrested in Baku
1908 and exiled in Solvichegodsk. He met Stefania Petrovskaya there for the
first time which was arrested for a revolutionary activity in Moscow 1907.
Yosef Jughashvili was escaped from the
exile and returned back to Baku where he continued his revolutionary activity.
At that time Stefania was released too and she went to Yosef Jughashvili in
Baku. They started living together and they were arrested at the beginning of
March 1910 together as well.
Different authors wrote about the love
affair of Yosef Jughashvili and Stefania Petrovskaya, however, it was not known
that Petrovskaya’s registration card was kept in historical archive of Georgia
– in Tbilisi.
See movie Stalin's Lover – Stefania here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbOrF709thA&t=799s
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