Ekaterine "Kato" Svanidze was the first wife of Joseph Stalin and the mother of his eldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili.
Racha is a highland area in western Georgia, located in the upper Rioni river valley and hemmed in by the Greater Caucasus mountains. Under Georgia's current subdivision, Racha is included in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region (mkhare) as the municipalities of Oni and Ambrolauri.
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was the eldest child of Joseph Stalin, the son of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family. In 1921, when Dzhugashvili had reached the age of fourteen, he was brought to Moscow, where his father had become a leading figure in the Bolshevik government, eventually becoming head of the Soviet Union. Disregarded by Stalin, Dzhugashvili was a shy, quiet child who appeared unhappy and tried to commit suicide several times as a youth. Married twice, Dzhugashvili had three children, two of whom reached adulthood.
Ketevan is a Georgian feminine given name, derived from the name Katāyoun, a figure in Persian mythology. It is sometimes used as a Georgian form of Katherine but, in terms of their etymology, the two names aren't related as Katherine has origins in the Greek language while Ketevan has origins in the Persian language. Diminutives of Ketevan include Kato, Keti, Keta, Ketato, Keto and Ketino, with Keti popular in English-speaking populations, likely due to its pronunciation and spelling being similar to Katie, and Kato and Keto popular among Georgians in Russia. The name was in common use for Georgian royalty and batonishvili.
Golovin or Golovina is a Russian surname, derived from the word голова. The surname may refer to:
Petrovič is a Slovenian and Slovak surname. Notable people with this surname include:
Iashivili is the Georgian surname, which may refer to:
Alexander Semyonovich "Alyosha" Svanidze was a Georgian Old Bolshevik, politician and historian. He was a personal friend of Joseph Stalin and a brother of Stalin’s first wife Kato. Nevertheless, Stalin had him arrested during the Great Purge in 1937 and he was shot in prison in 1941.
Nikolay Karlovich Svanidze is a Russian TV and radio host and member of the Public Chamber of Russia.
Pichkhadze or Pitchhadze is a Georgian surname of Jewish origin which may refer to:
Kato or Katō may refer to:
Geladze is a Georgian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Volchkov, feminine: Volchkova is a Russian surname. The origin comes from "волк", wolf. A transliteration variant is Voltchkov.
Kandelaki is a Georgian surname of early medieval Caucasus Greek Byzantine origin which may refer to:
Degiorgio is a family name of multiple origins. It is not known when the name became hereditary.
Ivan "Dzhonrid" Alexandrovich Svanidze, was a Soviet academic who specialized in agriculture and African Studies. He was the nephew of Joseph Stalin through his first wife, Ketevan Svanidze, and the third husband of Stalin's youngest daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.
Shalamberidze is a Georgian surname. It may refer to:
Tarba is an Abkhazian surname that ranks fourth in the Republic of Abkhazia in terms of the number of speakers. Distributed in all regions of Abkhazia, especially in the villages of Bzyb, Otkhara, Mgudzyrkhua, Lykhny, Duripsh, Eshera, Tamysh, Kyndyg, Myku, Chlou, Baslakhu, Reka and Markula. Representatives of the surname with the Mingrelian pronunciation "Tarbaya" live in the Gal region of Abkhazia, as well as in Georgia. The surname is also common in all cities of the Republic of Abkhazia. The surname is used variously like tarba, atarba, tarbaya, taraa, atraa or as atar and in different countries are just some of them. After Muhajirism, many representatives of the family settled in Turkey and in the countries mentioned. Notable people with the surname include:
Petrusewicz is a Polish gender-neutral surname of Eash-Slavic origin. Archaic feminine forms: Petrusewiczowna, Petrusewiczowa. It should be distinguished from the spelling Pietrusiewicz which conforms to the Polish phonology, which is usually a by-name in the noble Polish clan Wysoczański. It is a patronymic surname derived from the East Slavic given name Petrus', a diminutive of Piotr/Petro/Piatro (Peter).
Berulava is a Georgian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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