The relationship between Stalin and Lidiya: Final Verdict
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2026 1:51 am
https://xcancel.com/benbackupbackup/sta ... 2317150248
As you might know, one of the more controversial claims about Soviet leader Joseph Stalin concerns his relationship with a 13-year-old peasant girl named Lidiya Platonovna Pereprygina during his final exile in Siberia, before he left her a few years after to join the February revolution. Their relationship is shrouded in mystery, but it is alleged that Lidiya's son and red army Major, Alexander Yakovlevich Davydov, was also the illegitimate son of Joseph Stalin.
Now, pedophobic stalinists will often try to deny this by playing with semantics when it comes to the exact dates, and most commonly pretend that the only source for this claim comes from Stalin's biographer and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore who is in Epstein's contact list. Too bad for them that things aren't as convenient as they would like to.
Sometime in the 2000s, documents from the Soviet archives (most likely the Serov memorandum) became publicised, seemingly confirming that Stalin did indeed have an intimate relationship with a 13 year old Lidiya at the time and that he got her pregnant based on the KGB investigation on the matter. In 2016, a DNA test was performed on the grandson of Lydia Pereygina. Yuri Davydov's DNA matched this recognized Stalin descendant at 99.98% certainty, which establishes paternity in a way that historical ambiguity about dates and sources can't really overcome: https://www.sovsekretno.ru/articles/ist ... -dokazano/
I should note that paternity tests in general often have true positives, so it would be hard of most paternity tests to be disproven. But still, we'll come back to it later.
At this point, Stalin defenders rejected this evidence because of a problem with the timeline. Here’s the issue cleanly: Stalin left Kureika in October 1916 and was transferred away. Alexander was reported to be born in November 1917, which would require a pregnancy lasting nearly 14 months, far beyond the normal human gestation period.
I’ve pointed out in the past, that the November birthday is probably a records error. Right around the time Alexander was born, the birth records process was undergoing dramatic changes:
A recently discovered document has REVEALED the TRUE birth date of Alexander Davydov. And it is… AUGUST OF 1917!!!
https://rodina-history.ru/2026/06/11/u- ... dstvo.html
And keep in mind that, unlike the Siberian Times and sovsekretno, Rodina is actually a well-reputed paper in Russia that has won multiple journalistic awards for it s historical research, so Stalinist antis can't dismiss the mounting evidence anymore.
A 42-week pregnancy is not crazy. Across populations, roughly 5 to 10% of pregnancies reach 42 weeks' gestation, with the broader reported range running approximately 3 to 12%. So a pregnancy hitting the 42-week mark sits well within normal human variation: https://www.glowm.com/article/heading/v ... /id/413363
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/261369-overview
In Stalin’s daughter’s memoir, Only One Year, page 359 shows that she was aware Stalin had a son in Siberia. She doesn’t seem to be aware of Lydia’s age, but this is solid evidence that furthers what I’ve said. To quote:
And obviously she didn’t read any pop history or other history books like Young Stalin, because they were published YEARS later.
In the 1960s, Czech adventurers Hanzelka and Zikmund were to find testimonies on the Stalin-Lidiya relationship during their travels in Siberia, writing of them in their published travelogues.
Lidiya's son Alexander fathered two sons: Eduard and Yuri Davydov. NTV and The Siberian Times interviewed Yuri, who stated that in the early 1970s Alexander "invited [Yuri] to a room for a 'serious conversation'", in which Yuri was told that his grandfather was Joseph Stalin and further urged to keep it secret. Yuri said of his grandmother, Lidiya:
"My father's mother, Lidiya, told him about this many years after her affair with Stalin. I only saw my grandmother when I was little. She was thin and dark-skinned. She had dark hair and dark eyes, and was of medium height. They both kept it a secret."
From these independent sources, we can thus surmise that Stalin did indeed have sex with a 13-year-old peasant people.
As you might know, one of the more controversial claims about Soviet leader Joseph Stalin concerns his relationship with a 13-year-old peasant girl named Lidiya Platonovna Pereprygina during his final exile in Siberia, before he left her a few years after to join the February revolution. Their relationship is shrouded in mystery, but it is alleged that Lidiya's son and red army Major, Alexander Yakovlevich Davydov, was also the illegitimate son of Joseph Stalin.
Now, pedophobic stalinists will often try to deny this by playing with semantics when it comes to the exact dates, and most commonly pretend that the only source for this claim comes from Stalin's biographer and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore who is in Epstein's contact list. Too bad for them that things aren't as convenient as they would like to.
Sometime in the 2000s, documents from the Soviet archives (most likely the Serov memorandum) became publicised, seemingly confirming that Stalin did indeed have an intimate relationship with a 13 year old Lidiya at the time and that he got her pregnant based on the KGB investigation on the matter. In 2016, a DNA test was performed on the grandson of Lydia Pereygina. Yuri Davydov's DNA matched this recognized Stalin descendant at 99.98% certainty, which establishes paternity in a way that historical ambiguity about dates and sources can't really overcome: https://www.sovsekretno.ru/articles/ist ... -dokazano/
I should note that paternity tests in general often have true positives, so it would be hard of most paternity tests to be disproven. But still, we'll come back to it later.
At this point, Stalin defenders rejected this evidence because of a problem with the timeline. Here’s the issue cleanly: Stalin left Kureika in October 1916 and was transferred away. Alexander was reported to be born in November 1917, which would require a pregnancy lasting nearly 14 months, far beyond the normal human gestation period.
I’ve pointed out in the past, that the November birthday is probably a records error. Right around the time Alexander was born, the birth records process was undergoing dramatic changes:
https://www.myheritage.com/wiki/Birth_records_in_Russia“In Soviet Russia, the church was relieved of its responsibility for keeping records of citizens' births and deaths. According to the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) and the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) titled 'On Civil Marriage, Children, and the Maintenance of Civil Registration Records,' dated December 18, 1917, the state of the Workers' and Peasants' Soviets took over this function entirely. Birth certificates for children were issued by the Department of Civil Registration of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of Soviet Russia, and later of the USSR"
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Ru ... gistration“Gaps in registration persisted until 1926. ZAGS offices often gathered original metriki back to the beginning of the century into their collections to have an earlier record of vital events and to supplement the civil registration.”
A recently discovered document has REVEALED the TRUE birth date of Alexander Davydov. And it is… AUGUST OF 1917!!!
So this is a CHURCH document! Meaning, it is more credible than the later government reports of a November birthday, due to the chaotic changes in the records system! This is the ORIGINAL document recording his birth!"In the surviving metric book of the Turukhansk Transfiguration Cathedral for 1917, entry No. 17 was identified, according to which Alexander Pereprygin was born on August 21, 1917, and not on November 6, 1917.
In the 'Parents' column it is written: 'Of the Turukhansk population, the Cossack maiden Lidiya Platonova Pereprygina, of the Orthodox faith.”
https://rodina-history.ru/2026/06/11/u- ... dstvo.html
And keep in mind that, unlike the Siberian Times and sovsekretno, Rodina is actually a well-reputed paper in Russia that has won multiple journalistic awards for it s historical research, so Stalinist antis can't dismiss the mounting evidence anymore.
A 42-week pregnancy is not crazy. Across populations, roughly 5 to 10% of pregnancies reach 42 weeks' gestation, with the broader reported range running approximately 3 to 12%. So a pregnancy hitting the 42-week mark sits well within normal human variation: https://www.glowm.com/article/heading/v ... /id/413363
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/261369-overview
In Stalin’s daughter’s memoir, Only One Year, page 359 shows that she was aware Stalin had a son in Siberia. She doesn’t seem to be aware of Lydia’s age, but this is solid evidence that furthers what I’ve said. To quote:
This book was published in 1969, so 10+ years after the KGB investigation. She could not have been aware of it, though, since it was classified.My aunts told me that during one of his periods of exile in Siberia he [Stalin] lived together with a local peasant woman and that their son now lives there somewhere, poorly educated and preferring anonymity.
And obviously she didn’t read any pop history or other history books like Young Stalin, because they were published YEARS later.
In the 1960s, Czech adventurers Hanzelka and Zikmund were to find testimonies on the Stalin-Lidiya relationship during their travels in Siberia, writing of them in their published travelogues.
Lidiya's son Alexander fathered two sons: Eduard and Yuri Davydov. NTV and The Siberian Times interviewed Yuri, who stated that in the early 1970s Alexander "invited [Yuri] to a room for a 'serious conversation'", in which Yuri was told that his grandfather was Joseph Stalin and further urged to keep it secret. Yuri said of his grandmother, Lidiya:
"My father's mother, Lidiya, told him about this many years after her affair with Stalin. I only saw my grandmother when I was little. She was thin and dark-skinned. She had dark hair and dark eyes, and was of medium height. They both kept it a secret."
From these independent sources, we can thus surmise that Stalin did indeed have sex with a 13-year-old peasant people.