My Grandfather:
Ioseb Djugashvili the Romanov.
Also Known by his Nickname "Stalin".
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The First Ever Known Photograph of an Indigenous Australian.
Taken in the Old City of Yarragon in what is now called Gippsland in 1840. The man pictured in the lower left corner was “Stalin’s” Grandfather Besarion Djugashvili (my Great-Great-Grandfather). He was a City Council worker and well known native Gippsland "Australian Football" player. The old City of Yarragon was destroyed by an arson riot that left around 1.5 million people homeless in January and February 1858, led by crazies from a country that renamed itself "Austria" in around 1913. Besarion joined the Yarra-Yallou & Gunna-Kurnai Army immediately after the Arson riot in 1858. It could be what is now called "Narracan Drive" from the corner of "Monash Road" in Newborough.
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Besaronis Djugashvili, My Great-Grandfather. Long term partner of my Great-Grandmother Tsarina Alexandra Feodorova the Romanov from teenage age.