Stalin's Family Links with Baku

Stalin was in Baku in the early 1900s where he was involved in rallying the oil workers to strike against the oil field owners. In fact, during those years he was even jailed in Bayil Prison in Baku.
In addition, there is a family link according to his daughter Svetlana, who later tried to distance herself from her father and eventually caused a furor by defecting to the United States (1967). Svetlana's mother committed suicide (1932) when she realized that Stalin was not the man she thought she married, and she realized that he would never give her a divorce. "My father had known the Alliluyevs for a long time, since the end of the 1890s. He loved and respected them both, and they felt the same way toward him. In his reminiscences my grandfather has dealt at length with their early meetings, which had to do with the underground workers' circles."

further text with one photo from Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva with daughter Svetlana, 1927. Nadezhda committed suicide in 1932 at age 31.