Authors: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Tags: #History, #Biography, #Non-Fiction, #Politics, #War
Young Stalin
ALSO BY SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Potemkin: Catherine the Great’s Imperial Partner
To my darling son,
Sasha
Contents
3.
Brawlers, Wrestlers and Choirboys
6.
The “Young Man with the Burning Eyes”
7.
Battle of the Dormitories: Soso versus Father “Black Spot”
8.
The Weatherman: Parties and Princes
9.
Stalin Goes Underground:
Konspiratsia
10.
“I’m Working for the Rothschilds!”—Fire, Massacre and Arrest in Batumi
11.
The Prisoner
12.
The Frozen Georgian: Siberian Exile
15.
1905: Fighters, Urchins and Dressmakers
16.
1905: The Mountain Eagle—Stalin Meets Lenin
17.
The Man in Grey: Marriage, Mayhem (and Sweden)
20.
Kamo Goes Insane: The Game of Bandits and Cossacks
21.
The Tragedy of Kato: Stalin’s Stony Heart
22.
Boss of the Black City: Plutocrats, Protection-Rackets and Piracy
23.
Louse Racing, Murder and Madness—Prison Games
24.
“River Cock” and the Noblewoman
25.
“The Milkman”: Was Stalin a Tsarist Agent?
26.
Two Lost Fiancées and a Pregnant Peasant
27.
The Central Committee and “Glamourpuss” the Schoolgirl
28.
“Don’t Forget That Name and Be Very Wary!”
29.
The Escapist: Kamo’s Leap and the Last Bank Robbery
30.
Travels with the Mysterious Valentina
31.
Vienna, 1913: The Wonderful Georgian, the Austrian Artist and the Old Emperor
32.
The Secret Policeman’s Ball: Betrayal in Drag
33.
“Darling, I’m in Desperate Straits”
35.
The Hunter
36.
The Robinson Crusoe of Siberia
37.
Stalin’s Reindeer-Propelled Sleigh and a Siberian Son
38.
1917 Spring: Floundering Leader
39.
1917 Summer: Sailors on the Streets
40.
1917 Autumn: Soso and Nadya
42.
Glorious October 1917: The Bungled Uprising
43.
Power: Stalin Out of the Shadows
Epilogue:
An Old Tyrant—in Remembrance of Things Past
Stalin’s Names, Nicknames, Bylines and Aliases
Acknowledgements
Source Notes
Select Bibliography
Illustrations
1878–1904
Mugshot of Stalin, 1912
1
School photo, late 1880s
2
Stalin’s birthplace in Gori
1
Official photo of Beso, Stalin’s father
3
Stalin’s mother, Keke
1
Koba Egnatashvili
18
Sasha Egnatashvili
18
Damian Davrichewy
4
Stalin in 1893, aged sixteen
5
Stalin in 1896
1
Seminary photo, late 1890s
1
Fire at an oil refinery
6
Rothschild oil refinery, Batumi
6
Hashimi Smirba
6
Group photo in Kutaisi Prison, 1903
6
Novaya Uda
6
Kutaisi Prison
6
Stalin’s cell
6
Natasha Kirtava
6
Olga Alliluyeva
3
Olga and her children
3
1905–1910
Kamo
3
Stalin’s network of street children, 1905
7
Okhrana agents pose in their street costumes
3
Stalin, ca. 1905–6
5
Trotsky
5
Lenin, ca. 1905
5
Kato Svanidze
1
Kato Svanidze, headshot, from gravestone, Tbilisi
3
Daily Mirror
extract, 16 May 1907
8
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party agreement
3
Daily Mirror
extract, 27 June 1907
8
Daily Mirror
extract, 15 May 1907
8
Mugshot of Kamo from the police files, ca. 1908
1
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
1
Baku oil fountain
5
Nagayev’s Palace in Baku
9
Burning oil wells, Baku, 14 September 1903
10
Murtuza Mukhtarov and his wife, Liza
11
Stalin with Kato’s family beside her dead body, 1907
1
Alvasi Talakvadze
6
Ludmilla Stal
11
Stalin
1
Stalin when he was arrested in 1910
1
1910–1917
Stalin with Spandarian in 1915
1
Backs of postcards
12
Front of postcard
1
Maria Kuzakova with her son Constantine and his baby
3
Mugshot of Stalin when he was arrested in 1911
1
Stalin’s apartment block in Vienna
13
Lenin’s flat in Cracow
1
Roman Malinovsky
3
Stalin in 1913
1
Tatiana Slavatinskaya
16
Kureika, photographed in the 1930s
1
Ostyak tribesman with reindeer on the Arctic Circle
14
Alexander Davidov
17
Lidia Pereprygina
17
Bolshevik exiles photographed at Monastyrskoe in the summer of 1915
1
Vera Shveitzer
14
KGB boss Serov’s memo to Khrushchev in 1956, about the investigation into Stalin’s affair with thirteen-year-old Lidia Pereprygina
12
Taurida Palace
3
Soldiers in St. Petersburg, February—March 1917
3
1917–1918
Lenin addresses the crowds from Kseshinskaya’s palace in St. Petersburg, July 1917
3
July Days coup
3
Nadya Alliluyeva
1
Stalin’s bedroom in the Alliluyev apartment
3
Lenin
1
Smolny and new Soviet government, 1917
3
The first meeting of the new government
15
Lenin’s orders to his guards on access to his office
15
Stalin
5
Alexandra Kollontai and Pavel Dybenko ca. 1917
5
Stalin, ca. 1917
5
The author and publishers offer their thanks to the following for their kind permission to reproduce images:
1. David King Collection
2. Stalin House Museum, Gori
3. Author’s collection
4. Davrichewy Family Collection
5. RIA Novosti
6. Khariton Akhvlediani State Museum, Batumi
7. Georgian Filial Institute of Marxism-Leninism (GF IML)
8. Mirrorpix
9. Getty
10. Roger Viollet / Topfoto
11. Azerbaijan International Magazine
12. RGASPI
13. Lisa Train
14. Dr. Piers Vitebsky
15. Smolny Institute Museum
16. Achinsk Regional Museum (ARM)
17.
The Sunday Times
(London)
18. Egnatashvili Family Collection
While every effort has been made to trace copyright holders, if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be happy to acknowledge them in future editions.
