20 Facts About Yakov Dzhugashvili

In 1921, when Dzhugashvili had reached the age of fourteen, he was brought to Moscow, where his father had become a leading figure in the Bolshevik government, eventually becoming head of the Soviet Union.

Yakov Dzhugashvili finished his studies weeks before Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.

Yakov Dzhugashvili's father, Ioseb Dzhugashvili, was from Gori and was a Bolshevik revolutionary.

In 1921, Yakov Dzhugashvili was brought to Moscow to live with his father.

Yakov Dzhugashvili's half-siblings Svetlana and Vasily were born after he moved.

Yakov Dzhugashvili graduated from the Institute of Transport in 1935, and for the next couple years worked as a chimney-sweep engineer at an electric plant factory named after his father.

In 1928, Yakov Dzhugashvili made it known that he wanted to marry Zoya, who was then sixteen.

Stalin became enraged at the idea and in response Yakov Dzhugashvili attempted suicide, shooting himself in the chest and narrowly missing his heart.

However, Yakov Dzhugashvili was shy around her so she instead married Evgeni Mikeladze, a prominent orchestra conductor, earning ridicule from Stalin.

Yakov Dzhugashvili's next girlfriend was Olga Golysheva, who was a student at the Moscow Aviation School.

Yakov Dzhugashvili married Yulia Meltzer, a well-known Jewish dancer from Odessa.

Yakov Dzhugashvili was angry that Dzughashvili had not killed himself instead of being captured, and suspected that someone had betrayed him.

Meltzer, his wife, was not immediately told the news and, suspicious of her motives and the idea that Yakov Dzhugashvili surrendered, Stalin had her arrested.

Yakov Dzhugashvili felt that the United Kingdom was weak and had "never helped anyone", while praising Germany, noting it was the only major empire left and that the "whole of Europe would be nothing" without it.

Yakov Dzhugashvili was pictured on leaflets dropped over Soviet soldiers, shown smiling with his captors.

Yakov Dzhugashvili was moved to a guarded villa in Berlin, where Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, hoped to use him on Russian-language radio broadcasts.

When that failed to materialise, Yakov Dzhugashvili was moved to Oflag XC Lubeck then to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Yakov Dzhugashvili quarrelled with the British prisoners, and would frequently get in physical altercations with them.

On 14 April 1943, Yakov Dzhugashvili died at the Sachsenhausen camp.

In 1977, Yakov Dzhugashvili was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, first class, although this was done secretly and the family was not allowed to collect the medal.