Interior of Stalin’s Childhood Home
2014 © Maxim Tabachnik
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Interior of Stalin’s Childhood Home

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This modest room in Gori, Georgia, reflects Joseph Stalin’s humble origins in the late 19th c. The simple furniture, earthenware, and handwoven textiles reveal the poverty of his cobbler father’s household, shaping the early life of the future Soviet leader born in 1878.