Galina Dzhugashvili
Galina Dzhugashvili | |
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| Born | Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili 19 February 1938 |
| Died | 27 August 2007 (aged 69) Moscow, Russia |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Occupation | Translator |
| Employer | Gorky Institute of World Literature |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Joseph Stalin (grandfather) |
Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili (Russian: Галина Яковлевна Джугашвили; 19 February 1938 – 27 August 2007) was a Russian translator of French. She was the granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, the daughter of Stalin's elder son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. She consistently challenged widely accepted accounts of her father's internment and death at a Nazi prison camp.
Biography
Galina Dzhugashvili was born in
Odessa. After meeting Yulia at a reception, Yakov fought with her second husband, an NKVD officer called Nikolai Bessarab,[1]
and arranged her divorce. Bessarab was later arrested by the NKVD and executed. Yakov became her third husband.
Yakov was a
United States Defense Department was in possession of documents which indicated that Yakov Dzhugashvili was shot by a concentration camp guard, which were shown to Galina Dzhugashvili in 2003, but which she rejected, claiming that her father was never taken prisoner by the Germans, but rather was killed in battle in 1941. She continuously maintained that any photographs or letters indicating her father was at the prison camp were Nazi propaganda.[2]
Galina Dzhugashvili studied
Russian Writers Union, and worked all her life as a translator of French, mainly for the Gorky Institute of World Literature. She was married to Husein ben Saad, an Algerian mathematician living in exile in Moscow and employed by the United Nations
, but kept her maiden name. They had one son, Selim, born on 15 November 1971, who was born deaf.
Dzhugashvili died from cancer at the
Burdenko
military hospital in Moscow, aged 69.
References
- ^ "Мельцер Юдифь Исааковна". hrono.ru.
- ^ The Times obituary refers to an interview published in Komsomolskaya Pravda in June 2006.
External links
- Galina Dzhugashvili at Find a Grave
- New York Times obituary
- Obituary, The Independent, 15 September 2007
- Obituary, The Times, 10 September 2007
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