• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Her name was Lidia Pereprygina and Stalin and her had two children, one died as an infant. He was 35 and living in exile in Kureika after getting moved around in various work camps. He had gotten arrested at a Bolshevik masquerade ball of all things

    It was March 1914. She was 14 years old. Stalin left sometime between winter 1916 and March 1917, then never spoke to her again nor had any interest in his son with her.