Yulia Meltzer
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Yudith "Yulia" Isaakovna Meltzer (Russian: Юдифь "Юлия" Исааковна Мельцер; 1911–1968) was a Jewish Ukrainian ballerina.[1] She was the wife of Yakov Dzhugashvili, and the daughter-in-law of Joseph Stalin. She was the mother of Stalin's granddaughter, translator Galina Dzhugashvili.
Early life and marriage
Meltzer was from a Jewish family in Odessa. She was twice married when she met Dzhugashvili at a reception, who fought with her second husband, an NKVD officer called Nikolai Bessarab,[2] and arranged for her divorce. Bessarab was later arrested by the NKVD and executed. Dzhugashvili then became her third husband. Together they had one daughter, Galina (1938-2007).
Meltzer was reported imprisoned by Stalin between 1941 and 1943 after Yakov was imprisoned in a German concentration camp.[2] She died of cancer in 1968.[3]
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