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There were 5 Stalin's dachas in Abkhazia [2] New Athos dacha; Kholodnaya Rechka dacha; Lake Ritsa dacha; Sukhumi dacha, amid the Sukhumi arboretum (now part of the Sukhumi botanical garden) Miusera dacha; He also used to stay in (former royal palaces) such as Livadia Palace, Crimea or Massandra Palace, Crimea. Alternatively, many of Stalin's ...
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili [a] (31 March [O.S. 18 March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family.
The Kuntsevo Dacha (Russian: Ку́нцевская да́ча, romanized: Kuntsevskaya dacha) was Joseph Stalin's personal residence between Moscow and Davydkovo (on the road leading to the former town of Kuntsevo) (then in Moscow Oblast, now part of Moscow's Fili district), where he lived for the last two decades of his life and died on 5 March 1953.
Stalin's room was said to have been equipped with sensors to alert the staff and guards if there was any movement. [6] At approximately 11:00 p.m. on 1 March, Stalin's housekeeper cautiously entered his room and found him lying on the floor, wearing his pajama trousers and a shirt.
Students of a military-sponsored school attend the opening of a series of busts of Russian leaders, including Josef Stalin (center), in Moscow, on September 22, 2017.
Kremlin Palace and churches, early 1920s. The Grand Kremlin Palace was built between 1837 and 1849 to serve as the tsar's Moscow residence, on the site of the estate of the Grand Princes, which had been established in the 14th century on Borovitsky Hill; its construction involved the demolition of the previous Baroque palace on the site, designed by Rastrelli, and the 16th century Church of St ...
The state-owned news agency RIA said a number of radio stations had carried the hoax address. "All of these messages are an utter fake," it cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.
The palace has a rectangular shape and a volume of about 40,000 m³. It has over 800 rooms. [3] The central part of the building is occupied by an auditorium (in Soviet times, a conference hall) for 6,000 seats. Architectural historian Andrey Ikonnikov notes the openness of the internal layout of the palace and its interiors.