![]() The marriage was celebrated with the rambunctious festivity of the wild town of Gori. The wedding, according to tradition, took place just after sunset Georgian social life, writes one historian, was 'as ritualised as English Victorian behaviour'. ![]() Beso was an enviable groom, a true karachogheli, with beautiful moustaches, very well dressed - and with the special sophistication of a town-dweller.' Nor was Keke in any doubt that she herself was something of a catch too: 'Among my female friends, I became the desired and beautiful girl.' Indeed, 'slender, chestnut-haired with big eyes', she was said to be 'very pretty'. 'Beso', says Keke in newly discovered memoirs, 'was considered a very popular young man among my friends and they were all dreaming of marrying him. On, a handsome young cobbler, the very model of a chivalrous Georgian man, Vissarion 'Beso' Djugashvili, aged twenty-two, married Ekaterina 'Keke' Geladze, seventeen, an attractive freckled girl with auburn hair, at the Uspensky Church in the small Georgian town of Gori.Ī matchmaker had visited Keke's house to tell her about the suit of Beso the cobbler: he was a respected artisan in Baramov's small workshop, quite a catch. ![]()
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