Ekaterina Geladze (familiarly known as "Keke" ) (1858–1937) was the mother of Joseph Stalin. Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party She was born to a family of Georgian Orthodox Christian serfs in Gambareuli, Georgia, in 1858 and although her father, Glakh Geladze, died young and the family was always poor, somehow her mother ensured that Keke learned to read and write. Christianity in ancient and feudal Georgia According to tradition when the Apostles were sent out to preach the Gospel to the nations of the world the Apostle Georgia ( საქართველო, Sakartvelo) is a Transcontinental country in the Caucasus region situated at the dividing line between Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common
Keke met and married Vissarion Jughashvili at the age of 16. Vissarion (Beso Ivanovich Jughashvili (also transliterated as Dzhugashvili) ( Виссарион (Бесо Иванович Джугашвили in Russian Her first two children died shortly after birth -- Mikhail in 1876 and Georgi the following year. Her third son (and last child), Joseph, was born on December 6, 1878 and survived. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Nicknamed "Soso", Joseph grew up in a violent home: his father ("Beso") was incessantly drunk and beat his mother and him frequently. Before Joseph was 10, Beso left the family home (some sources say he was thrown out by his wife). To support herself and her son, Keke took on any menial job available – mainly housework, sewing and laundering. Often, to help provide extra income, she would sleep with her employers.
Keke often worked in the houses of rich Jewish traders in Gori, and sometimes took her son along. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ He was said to have been a smart child and he entertained some of the householders, including David Pismamedov who encouraged the young Stalin to study, and gave him money and books to read.
His mother's ambition was for Joseph to become a priest and she somehow accumulated enough money for his education, perhaps with Pismamedov's help. In 1888 she was able to enroll Soso into the Gori Church School and, later, with his mother's encouragement, he obtained a scholarship to the Tiflis Theological Seminary, a Georgian Orthodox institution which he attended from the age of sixteen. Christianity in ancient and feudal Georgia According to tradition when the Apostles were sent out to preach the Gospel to the nations of the world the Apostle
Later in life, when Stalin achieved prominence in the communist regime, he installed his mother in a palace in the Caucasus, formerly used by the tsar's viceroy. A palace is a grand residence especially the home of a Head of state or some other high-ranking Public figure. The Caucasus ( also referred to as North Caucasus) is a geopolitical region located between Europe Asia & Middle East There she is said to have occupied only one tiny room from where she wrote frequent letters (in Georgian – she never managed to learn good Russian) to her son and daughter-in-law. Georgian (ka ქართული ენა kartuli ena) is the Official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages
These were reciprocated, although Stalin is believed not to have visited her until 1935, when she was very sick. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. N. Kipshidze, a doctor who treated Keke in her old age, recalled that Stalin asked his mother at this meeting: "Why did you beat me so hard?" "That's why you turned out so well", Keke answered. In return, his mother asked him: "Joseph--who exactly are you now?" "Remember the tsar? Well, I'm like a tsar", replied Stalin. Tsar csar and tzar redirect here For other uses see Tsar (disambiguation. Tsar csar and tzar redirect here For other uses see Tsar (disambiguation. "You'd have done better to have become a priest" was his mother's retort. A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites in particular rites of sacrifice to and propitiation of a deity or deities She died on May 13, 1937. Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.