Rumors that Nikolai Przhevalsky, the real father of Stalin, went during the life of the father of the peoples. Check if this is so.

If you put a photograph of the mature traveler Nikolai Przhevalsky and Mature Stalin nearby, you can notice a certain similarity. Exists legendthat this is not by chance and that Przhevalsky is the real father of Stalin. Moreover, they say that Stalin himself knew about this and secretly proud of it.

In 1878-1879, Przhevalsky allegedly lived in the Georgian city of Gori, where Stalin was born in 1878. Przhevalsky used to write all his actions and all events in detail daily in detail. According to legend, from the archive of Przhevalsky during the years of the dominance of Stalin, everything related to the period of his stay in Gori was seized. “However, in the consumable book, an insufficiently attentive segments of the archive left the pages on which expenses were recorded: the money sent in 1880 and 81 in the Mother of Stalin. Later, the transfer of money was stopped, ”writes the writer and collector of Soviet folklore Yuri Borev in 1990 in the book Staliniad.

Probably, it was he who published this legend for the first time in the official press. According to the preface, the author collected material for the book for almost half a century. At the same time, Borev himself writes: “These arguments are completely insolvent, and the legend has neither historical nor artistic value, but it is significant as evidence of the darkening of the origin of Stalin.”

The popularity of the paternity of Przhevalsky was added by the writer and TV presenter Edward Radzinsky, whose works of professional historians often criticize for “the flight of fantasy”. In his book about Stalin, he considers This version does not directly confirm, but does not refute. In addition, Radzinsky writes that "Przhevalsky, the famous traveler, really came to Gori."

But this is just the verified statement, and it is not true. There were some seized personal diaries of Przhevalsky or not, we do not know for sure. But he had very detailed diaries of expeditions, which were published by separate books.

Stalin has two dates of birth: one real, recorded in the church book, the other official, which he himself chose almost on the eve of the 50th anniversary. This date is December 1878. The second is December 1879. That is, conception was supposed to occur in about the March of one of these two years.

But the diaries of Przhevalsky testify that in both of these years he was in Zhaisan in March, on the border of modern Kazakhstan and China, 4,500 km from Gori. In 1878, he had to be due to a serious illness interrupt the expedition and go to St. Petersburg, and in 1879 he was just The expedition resumed And he went to Tibet. Przhevalsky, most likely, has never been to Georgia at all. In any case, there is no documentary evidence now.

There is another detail that makes the relationship between Przhevalsky and Stalin doubtful. He never had a wife or children. Foreign biographers of a traveler Confidentthat he was homosexual and that he took with him close to him to all the young people.

True, there is still one curious evidence in favor of the legend. He should be paid attention to, if only because it comes from Andrei Petrovich Kapitsa, the son of the Nobel laureate, the former dean of the Faculty of Geographical of Moscow State University and the correspondent of the Academy of Sciences. On the 2001 home video, he tells The fact that he allegedly found a letter from Przhevalsky to his friend and great -grandfather, to General Stebnitsky with the following words: “If the events known to you occur in Gori, then you will have to help him until the end of your life, because I will no longer have funds.”

Kapitsa was sure that it was about the future son and that it was the participation of the great -grandfather in the fate of the boy, about whom Stalin knew later saved his own father Peter Kapitsa from repression.

Unfortunately, we cannot ask him or his famous older brother Sergei Kapitsa about this letter, they are no longer alive. But the letter itself was never presented. What is behind this story: false memory, fantasy or some kind of confusion-we do not know. But this evidence cannot yet seriously shake the belief that the story of Prezhevalsky and Stalin is a fake. As for the external resemblance, the shoemaker of Vissarion Dzhugashvili, Joseph, is similar at least not less on his official father. Especially in non -parallest photographs.