Talk:Kato Svanidze

Votes for deletion
This page was recently nominated for deletion, and the consensus decision was to keep it. The deletion debate is archived here. ugen 64 03:49, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

this page is totally incorrect, including the claimings of Stalin's Ossetian ethnic backgrounds...

In Montefiore's Young Stalin, it is asserted that he was of Ossetian background (on the Djugashvili side, not the Geladze) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andres68 (talk • contribs) 21:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Sgtwookie 22:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)I made necessary grammatical changes however I haven't yet verified the validity of the document. ~§gt Щookie~

Family Killed?
Why was her family killeD? 69.181.220.209 (talk) 22:44, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Why? LOL. Why did Stalin murder millions of people? There's no rhyme or reason to it, just that he was a paranoid motherfucker, and the Russians enjoy being abused.

Cause of death
The article first says she died of typhus, then that she died of tuberculosis. Presumably it is one or the other, but not both.

24.255.155.226 (talk) 09:57, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Well her death wasn't caused by typhus either. You don't get typhus from contaminated drinking water but you do get TYPHOID FEVER instead. So the sentence, "On the 13-hour trip back to Tiflis, she apparently drank infected water and contracted typhus" is completely incorrect. Typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii through the feces of the human body louse. Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhi through drinking water contaminated with human feces and can also cause a rash. By the descriptions given and the fact that human body lice infest clothing that hasn't been changed for a very long time, usually under extremely bad living conditions (like the gulags Stalin threw millions of people into and other concentration camps), you need to correct this b/c it looks uninformed and completely stupid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.138.93.133 (talk) 05:20, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

about everything
montefiores book not biographical source, stallin not was ossetian of course, jugashvili is old kakhetian surname from village jugaani, i have many other georgian sources about stallin, in this source not written about stallins ossetian origin, I will delete everithing about ossetian origination of stalin.--Gaga.vaa (talk) 17:19, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Montefiore is a reliable source until you prove otherwise, and there's nothing in the article about Ossetian roots. I've undone your changes because there is no dispute over the spelling of her name - Ketevan is the name, and it's a well-known Georgian name that has nothing to do with Ossetia.  —Мандичка YO 😜 02:42, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Translation disagreements??
Rather than rewriting the second note at the end of the Kato Svanidze article, (below), I am making a comment: "b Simon Sebag Montefiore misspells the name as 'Monoselidze' throughout his book; the actual name is Monaselidze (Georgian: მონასელიძე, a somewhat common Georgian surname.[31]" When the actual name is "მონასელიძე" are not the two Engllsh spellings more a disagreement of how best to spell something using a different alphabet? Would it not be more accurate to state:  [Simon Sebag Montefiore spells the name "Monoselidze" throughout his book; the preferred transliteration is "Monaselidze", (a somewhat common Georgian surname).]

GeeBee60 (talk) 23:38, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Maria Svanidze death
I've seen several wiki articles claim that she was shot, however Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, says Maria died of a heart attack upon learning of the sentencing of Alexander Svanidze. She was in Dolinskoye women's camp in Kazakhstan at that moment, sentenced to ten years. This is from Twenty Letters to a Friend, pp 67-68. Should this be fixed or not? MrThe1And0nly (talk) 20:34, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I actually was looking into this. There's a few different sources that say different things; I'm working on collecting them all and adding them to the article, noting that there is discrepancies. Kaiser matias (talk) 23:30, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Photo of Ekaterina c. 1905
I believe that the photo of Kato Svanidze that's said to be taken in 1905 is actually a photo of the soviet actress Anna Tarasova in the role of Anna Karenina. I'm not quite sure how I upload photos here or if I can, but I hope someone else can quickly have a look at this and see if I'm right or wrong. (Her memoirs and postcards carries the photo that's called Kato's here) APebble (talk) 08:21, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noting that. Do you have something showing that? If you do I don't see why we can't remove the image in question here. Kaiser matias (talk) 02:35, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes there's quite a few photos showing this. I have to apologies, the actress name is actually Alla Tarasova, and she played the role at the Moscow Art Theater in 1937. Try googling her name in Russian with Anna Karenina or 1937 and you'll see the very same photo used here, as Kato's, from trustable sites showing it' s Tarasova :) I apologise that I can't be of bigger help with actually showing the photos, but I've just joined wikipedia and don't want to make any mistakes with photos and fair use. APebble (talk) 17:01, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help there. I removed the photo as it very well may not be Svandize, and with photos already there it's not hurting the article by having it gone. Kaiser matias (talk) 22:42, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking your time and looking it over! APebble (talk) 10:51, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Is Alexander also Alyosha?
I am confused by this passage: « In 1938, Stalin ordered Alyosha and his wife, Maria, to be arrested. He demanded that Alyosha admit he was a German spy; but Alexander refused.[32] Alyosha was executed in 1941, while Mariko and Maria were shot in 1942. »

Are Alexander and Alyosha the same person? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 05:41, 9 December 2022 (UTC)


 * They are the same person, though I see where the confusion is. I reworded it to be more clearer. Kaiser matias (talk) 16:59, 17 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I thought that was the case, but don't know enough about Russian names to make a correction. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 18:06, 17 December 2022 (UTC)