Joseph Davrichewy

French author, agent and aviator of Georgian origin who claimed to be I.V. Stalin’s half-brother:

“I am the son of Damian Petrovich Davrochilov [Davrishev]; police commissioner of the city of Gori. Stalin was the illegitimate son of my father and a woman who worked from time to time in our house helping my mother with housekeeping.

The whole town knew that Stalin’s mother had an intimate relationship with my father. Later my father had shown great interest in this boy and kept inviting him to our house to play with me.

When Stalin’s legal father learned that his wife had been unfaithful he attempted to kill my father. My father was wounded but instead of arresting him; or deporting him to Siberia like he should have done according to law; he dropped the case and asked that Stalin’s legal father Dougahvili [Jugashvili] leave Gori. And thats how Stalin’s legal father left Gori to go to work in Tiflis.

Like all children; little rascals; we spent most of the day on the street fighting each other. Struggling; catching cats - we used to tie pans or cans to the cats’ tails and the cats would start running; entering houses which would amuse us very much and make us laugh.

I started in politics in my last year at high school; I was with Kamenev; the Kamenev that later Stalin had shot. Kamenev had founded a club where we used to read das Kapital by Marx; Engels and all sorts of historic debates. I was not very much interested; not much at all.

Stalin joined that club also with another of his friends Florenski. It was the first time I met Stalin on political ground. Marxism appealed to him to a great extent and he was already preaching the workers of Tiflis. At that time he had been already expelled from the seminary and was living at the house of workers. Certainly I was working in the revolution when Stalin came back from Siberia in 1904.

He had his own organization I had mine. He was a social-democrat and I was a revolutionary socialist; but both of us were activists. He had his own gang called the jgoupists and I had mine called the Red Militia. We hijacked people to raise money; we frightened the bourgeois taking their money; but we did not use one kopeck on ourselves. All the money was used on publications: pamphlets newspapers and above all to buy arms. From 1904 to the end of 1905. I left Russia after the hold-up of the state treasury. because I was tried in abstentia; I did not wish either to be deported to Siberia.

Stalin just like me and all the young rascals was a picker of fights; but he believed in God. We believed in God completely - we were choir boys. We were ‘enfants de choeur’ - Stalin at the orthodox church and me at the catholic church. We did not like what was unfair; we were righteous; we were true Georgians - untouched by the Russian civilization; maybe we were the last generation of true Georgians.

I thought I was better than him because I was more successful. I could speak Russian without accent when he had a dreadful accent. I was daring and always first to throw a bomb or when a speech had to be made; or again like one day when I was sent on a delegation; then I was prominent - he was a show. Therefore even now when one writes memoirs on Stalin’s days; our two parties are confussed: the federal party which was mine and that of Dougashvili.”

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