Editing Nadezhda Alliluyeva (section)

===Youth===
[[File:Doctored Stalin-Lenin (cropped)(b).jpg|thumb|alt=photo of Stalin from the waist up, tilting slightly to the side|[[Joseph Stalin]] {{circa|1922}}]]

Nadezhda Alliluyeva, born in Baku on 22 September 1901,<ref name="Ebon 40"/> was the youngest of four children, following Anna, Fyodor, and Pavel.<ref>{{harvnb|Kun|2003|p=396}}</ref> The family moved to [[Moscow]] in 1904, but had returned to Baku by 1906. In 1907, to avoid arrest, Sergei moved the family to [[Saint Petersburg]], where they would remain.<ref>{{harvnb|Richardson|1993|pp=29, 35–38}}</ref> The family would often help hide members of the [[Bolsheviks]], a Russian revolutionary group, at their home, including Stalin.<ref>{{harvnb|Kotkin|2014|p= 117}}</ref> Sergei Aliluyev worked at an electricity station, and by 1911 was named head of a sector there, allowing the family to afford a comfortable lifestyle.<ref>{{harvnb|Richardson|1993|p=39}}</ref>

Exposed to revolutionary activity throughout her youth, Alliluyeva first became a supporter of the Bolsheviks while in school.<ref>{{harvnb|Richardson|1993|p=64}}</ref> Her family frequently hosted party members at their home, including hiding [[Vladimir Lenin]] during the [[July Days]] of 1917, which further strengthened Alliluyeva's views.<ref>{{harvnb|Richardson|1993|p=56}}</ref> After Lenin escaped Russia in August 1917, Stalin arrived.<ref>{{harvnb|Richardson|1993|p=62}}</ref> He had known Alliluyeva since she was a child, reportedly having saved her from drowning when they were both in Baku.<ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2007|p=194}}</ref> It had been many years since they had last seen each other, and over the rest of the summer they became close.<ref>{{harvnb|Montefiore|2007|pp=345–346}}</ref> The couple married in February or March 1919.<ref>{{harvnb|Kotkin|2014|p=264}}</ref>{{Efn|The date of the marriage was never recorded.<ref>{{harvnb|Kotkin|2014|p=778, note 228}}</ref>}} Stalin was a 40-year-old widower and father of one son ([[Yakov Dzhugashvili|Yakov]]), born in 1907 to Stalin's first wife, [[Kato Svanidze]], who died of [[typhus]] later that year. There was no ceremony for the marriage, as Bolsheviks frowned upon religious customs.<ref>{{harvnb|Richardson|1993|p=69}}</ref>