Yakov Dzhugashvili, Joseph Stalin’s eldest son, had a difficult relationship wit…
Yakov Dzhugashvili, Joseph Stalin’s eldest son, had a difficult relationship with his father from childhood. Raised largely by relatives after his mother’s death, Yakov was brought to Moscow as a teenager, where Stalin reportedly treated him with coldness and often dismissed him. In 1928, after Stalin strongly opposed his relationship with 16-year-old Zoya Gunina, […]
