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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 562,853 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Besarion Jughashvili is the 34th most popular celebrity (up from 35th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Georgia (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Celebrity.

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Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 34 out of 181Before him are Jacques Mayol, Mary Mallon, Kim Kardashian, Albert Pierrepoint, Blanche Monnier, and Rosemary Kennedy. After him are Cecilia Gallerani, Edie Sedgwick, Thérésa Tallien, Keke Geladze, Armi Kuusela, and Fritz Pfeffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 24Before him are Luigi Cadorna, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Ignác Goldziher, Victoriano Huerta, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and César Ritz. After him are Sami Frashëri, William Morris Davis, Ivan Vazov, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Mikhail Chigorin, and Zdeněk Fibich. Among people deceased in 1909, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 20Before him are Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Red Cloud, Emil Erlenmeyer, and Francisco Ferrer. After him are Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess Marie of Orléans, Paul Gachet, Abdul Karim, Simon Newcomb, and Arnold Janssen.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 32 out of 342Before him are Victor Ambartsumian (1908), Rusudan of Georgia (1194), Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866), Kato Svanidze (1885), Nicholas Marr (1864), and Ilia Chavchavadze (1837). After him are Murad Bey (1750), Nariman Narimanov (1870), Keke Geladze (1858), Bagrat III of Georgia (960), George III of Georgia (1200), and Rashid Behbudov (1915).

Among CELEBRITIES In Georgia

Among celebrities born in Georgia, Besarion Jughashvili ranks 1After him are Keke Geladze (1858).