Galina Dzhugashvili
Introduction


**Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili** (; 19 February 1938 – 27 August 2007\) was a Russian translator of [French](/wiki/French_language "French language"). She was the granddaughter of [Joseph Stalin](/wiki/Joseph_Stalin "Joseph Stalin"), the daughter of Stalin's elder son, [Yakov Dzhugashvili](/wiki/Yakov_Dzhugashvili "Yakov Dzhugashvili"). She consistently challenged widely accepted accounts of her father's internment and death at a Nazi prison camp.


Was Galina's grandfather, Joseph Stalin, a significant figure in Russian history?