About Yulia Meltzer
Lived 1911 – 1968 (aged 56–57). Yulia Meltzer was a ballet dancer.
Yudith "Yulia" Isaakovna Meltzer (; ; ; 1911–1968) was a Jewish Ukrainian ballerina. She was the wife of Yakov Dzhugashvili, and the daughter-in-law of Joseph Stalin. She was the mother of Stalin's granddaughter, translator Galina Dzhugashvili.
Early life and marriage Meltzer was from a Jewish family in Odesa. She was twice married when she met Dzhugashvili at a reception, who fought with her second husband, an NKVD officer called Nikolai Bessarab, and arranged for her divorce. Bessarab was later arrested by the NKVD and executed. Dzhugashvili then became her third husband. Together they had one daughter, Galina (1938–2007).
Meltzer was reported imprisoned by Stalin between 1941 and 1943 after Yakov was imprisoned in a German concentration camp.
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Who was Yulia Meltzer?
ballerina, wife of Yakov Dzhugashvili
When was Yulia Meltzer born?
Yulia Meltzer was born in 1911 in Odesa.
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Yulia Meltzer died in 1968.
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Yulia Meltzer was a ballet dancer.
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