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Besarion Jughashvili

1850 - 1909

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Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili (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. He was invited to set up his own shop in Gori, where he met and married Ekaterine Geladze, with whom he had three sons; only the youngest, Ioseb, lived. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Besarion Jughashvili has received more than 605,866 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Besarion Jughashvili is the 32nd most popular celebrity (up from 34th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Georgia (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Georgian Celebrity.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.07

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  • 2.06

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Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 32 out of 265. Before him are Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Marie Duplessis, Margaret Brown, Peggy Guggenheim, Thérésa Tallien, and Keke Geladze. After him are Blanche Monnier, Philippe Petit, Rosemary Kennedy, Don King, Rodney King, and Sarah Knauss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 20. Before him are Oliver Heaviside, Ignác Goldziher, Luigi Cadorna, Lafcadio Hearn, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and Henry Louis Le Chatelier. After him are Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, César Ritz, Sami Frashëri, Victoriano Huerta, and Mikhail Chigorin. Among people deceased in 1909, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 16. Before him are Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Emil Erlenmeyer, and Zinovy Rozhestvensky. After him are Felice Beato, Francisco Ferrer, Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Red Cloud, Paul Gachet, and Abdul Karim.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 33 out of 406. Before him are Keke Geladze (1858), Bagrat III of Georgia (960), Victor Ambartsumian (1908), Vakhtang I of Iberia (440), Nicholas Marr (1864), and Stepan Shaumian (1878). After him are Ilia Chavchavadze (1837), Heraclius II of Georgia (1720), Murad Bey (1750), Roustam Raza (1783), Rashid Behbudov (1915), and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866).

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Among CELEBRITIES In Georgia

Among celebrities born in Georgia, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 2. Before him are Keke Geladze (1858).

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