Alexander Davydov (soldier)

Stalin resided in the Siberian village of Kureika during his exile. Here, he had an affair with 14-year-old Lidiya Platonovna Pereprygina while he was 35, and whom he promised he would marry once she became an adult. Pereprygina allegedly became pregnant with Stalin's child.{{Cite book |last=Khlevniuk |first=Oleg V |title=𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯: 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-300-16388-9 |pages=30}}{{Sfnm|1a1=Suny|1y=2020|1p=559|2a1=Khlevniuk|2y=2015|2p=30}}{{Cite news |last=Гамов |first=Александр |date=8 November 2018 |title=Stalin promised the gendarmes that he would marry his 14-year-old mistress as soon as she became an adult |url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/26905.4/3949946/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713032535/https://www.kp.ru/daily/26905.4/3949946/ |archive-date=13 July 2023 |access-date=21 May 2023 |work=Kp.ru -}} The child was born in December 1914, but died soon after.{{Sfn|Montefiore|2007|pp=292–293}} At the age of 16, Pereprygina became pregnant again and gave birth to Alexander on 6 November 1917. Stalin went out of exile and left Siberia before he was born. Pereprygina later married Yakov Semyonovich Davydov, a peasant fisherman who adopted Alexander.{{Sfn|Montefiore|2007|p=366}}{{Cite web |title=The real story of nonmarital son of Stalin |url=https://www.sovsekretno.ru/articles/istoriya/the-real-story-of-nonmarital-son-of-stalin/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=www.sovsekretno.ru}} Stalin knew of Davydov's existence and allegedly tried twice to bring him to Moscow. However, they never met.{{Cite web |last=Мождженская |first=Алла |date=2021-12-24 |title=Внук Сталина Юрий Давыдов: «Говорят, я похож на деда» • 24.12.2021 • Чтиво • Сибдепо |url=https://sibdepo.ru/reading/vnuk-stalina-yurij-davydov-govoryat-ya-pohozh-na-deda.html |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=Сибдепо |language=ru-RU}}

Davydov was drafted into the Red Army in August 1940. He participated in the Manchurian Campaign against the Japanese between March and August 1945. He achieved the rank of major.[https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/person-hero122901790/?backurl=%2Fheroes%2F%3Fadv_search%3Dy%26static_hash%3D33a6725e764f4dc598b56ecff75a6077v2%26last_name%3D%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%26date_birth_from%3D1917%26data_vibitiya_period%3Don%26group%3Dall%26types%3Dpamyat_commander%3Anagrady_nagrad_doc%3Anagrady_uchet_kartoteka%3Anagrady_ubilein_kartoteka%3Apdv_kart_in%3Apdv_kart_in_inostranec%3Apamyat_voenkomat%3Apotery_vpp%3Apamyat_zsp_parts%3Akld_ran%3Akld_bolezn%3Akld_polit%3Akld_upk%3Akld_vmf%3Akld_partizan%3Apotery_doneseniya_o_poteryah%3Apotery_gospitali%3Apotery_utochenie_poter%3Apotery_spiski_zahoroneniy%3Apotery_voennoplen%3Apotery_iskluchenie_iz_spiskov%3Apotery_kartoteki%3Apotery_rvk_extra%3Apotery_isp_extra%3Asame_doroga%26page%3D1%26grouppersons%3D1%26first_name%3D%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%26middle_name%3D%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87&search_view_id=smperson_rvk1096912832 “Давыдов Александр Яковлевич”], Pamyat-naroda.ru

Davydov fathered a son named Eduard. Around 1948–1949, Davydov fathered another son named Yuri. In interviews with NTV and The Siberian Times, Yuri stated that in the early 1970s Davydov and his wife "invited [Yuri] to a room for a 'serious conversation'", in which Yuri was informed of their relation to Stalin, but advised his son to not speak of it due to the influence of Stalin's cult of personality.{{Cite news |date=2001-03-27 |title=Stalin grandson found in Siberia |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1245986.stm |access-date=2025-01-02 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2016-05-11 |title=Siberian pensioner IS grandson of Josef Stalin, DNA test reveals |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511164440/http://siberiantimes.com:80/other/others/news/n0635-siberian-pensioner-is-grandson-of-josef-stalin-dna-test-reveals/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=web.archive.org}} Davydov died in 1987.

In 2016, Yuri Davydov took a DNA test that confirmed Alexander's father was Stalin, with a reported 99.98% accuracy. Alexander Burdonsky, Stalin's grandson through his son Vasily Stalin, provided the genetic material to confirm the relation.

• Order of the Red Star
• Medal "For Battle Merit"
• Medal "For the Victory over Japan"

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• {{Cite book |last=Montefiore |first=Simon Sebag |title=Young Stalin |year=2007 |author-link=Simon Sebag Montefiore |location=London |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |isbn=978-0-297-85068-7}}

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