Young Stalin Read Free

Iremashvili, childhood friend in Gori and Tiflis Seminary, Menshevik memoirist
    Father Christopher Charkviani, Gori priest, protector and possible father, and his son, Kote Charkviani
    Peter “Peta” Kapanadze, Gori and Tiflis Seminary, priest and lifelong friend
    Giorgi Elisabedashvili, Gori friend, Bolshevik
    Dato Gasitashvili, Beso’s cobbling apprentice
    THE SCHOOLMASTERS
    Simon Gogchilidze, Stalin’s singing teacher and patron at the Gori Church School
    Prince David Abashidze, Father Dmitri, “Black Spot,” priestly pedant at the Tiflis Seminary and Stalin’s hated persecutor
    THE GIRLS
    Natalia “Natasha” Kirtava, landlady and girlfriend in Batumi
    Alvasi Talakvadze, protégée and girlfriend in Baku
    Ludmilla Stal, Bolshevik activist and girlfriend in Baku and St. Petersburg
    Stefania Petrovskaya, Odessan noblewoman, exile, mistress and fiancée in Solvychegodsk and Baku
    Pelageya “Polia” Onufrieva, “Glamourpuss,” schoolgirl mistress in Vologda
    Serafima Khoroshenina, mistress and partner in Solvychegodsk
    Maria Kuzakova, landlady and mistress in Solvychegodsk, mother of Constantine
    Tatiana “Tania” Slavatinskaya, married Bolshevik and mistress
    Valentina Lobova, Bolshevik fixer and probable mistress
    Lidia Pereprygina, thirteen-year-old orphan seduced by Stalin in Turukhansk and mother of two children by him, fiancée
    COMRADES, ENEMIES AND RIVALS—TIFLIS AND BAKU
    Lado Ketskhoveli, Gori priest’s son, Stalin’s Bolshevik mentor and hero
    Prince Alexander “Sasha”Tsulukidze, rich aristocrat, Stalin’s Bolshevik mentor and hero
    Mikha Tskhakaya, founder of Georgian SDs (Social-Democrats), early Bolshevik, Stalin’s patron
    Philip Makharadze, Bolshevik and Stalin’s sometime ally
    Budu “the Barrel” Mdivani, actor and Bolshevik terrorist, Stalin’s ally
    Abel Yenukidze, early Bolshevik, friend of Alliluyevs, Svanidzes and Stalin
    Silibistro “Silva” Jibladze, ex-seminarist, Menshevik firebrand
    Lev Rosenblum, “Kamenev,” well-off Tiflis engineer’s son, moderate Bolshevik
    Mikhail “Misha” Kalinin, peasant, butler, early Bolshevik in Tiflis
    Suren Spandarian, son of well-off Armenian editor, Bolshevik, womanizer, Stalin’s best friend
    Stepan Shaumian, well-off Armenian Bolshevik, Stalin’s ally and rival
    Grigory “Sergo” Ordzhonikidze, poor nobleman, nurse, Bolshevik hard man, Stalin’s longtime ally
    Sergo Kavtaradze, young henchman of Stalin in western Georgia, Baku, St. Petersburg
    WIVES AND IN-LAWS
    Alexander “Alyosha” Svanidze, seminarist, Stalin friend, early Bolshevik and later brother-in-law
    Alexandra “Sashiko” Svanidze, sister of above and Stalin friend
    Mikheil Monoselidze, Sashiko’s husband and Bolshevik ally of Stalin
    Maria “Mariko” Svanidze, sister of Sashiko and Alyosha
    Ekaterina “Kato” Svanidze Djugashvili, youngest of family, Stalin’s first wife and mother of
    Yakov “Yasha” or “Laddie” Djugashvili, Stalin’s son
    Sergei Alliluyev, railway and electrical manager, early Bolshevik, Stalin ally in Tiflis, Baku and St. Petersburg
    Olga Alliluyeva, wife of Sergei, early Stalin friend, possibly mistress, later mother-in-law
    Pavel Alliluyev, son of Olga
    Anna Alliluyeva, daughter of Olga
    Fyodor “Fedya” Alliluyev, son of Olga
    Nadezhda “Nadya” Alliluyeva, daughter of Sergei and Olga, Stalin’s second wife
    GANGSTERS, MASTERMINDS AND FIXERS
    Kamo, Simon “Senko”Ter-Petrossian, Stalin’s friend, protégé, then bank robber and hitman
    Kote Tsintsadze, Stalin’s hitman and brigand in western Georgia and later bank-robbery chief
    Leonid Krasin, Lenin’s master of bomb-making, money-laundering, bank robberies and elite contacts, later fell out with Lenin
    Meyer Wallach, “Maxim Litvinov,” Bolshevik arms-dealer and money-launderer
    Andrei Vyshinsky, well-off Odessa pharmacist’s son, brought up in Baku, Stalin’s enforcer and later Menshevik
    THE TITAN OF MARXISM
    Georgi Plekhanov, father of Russian