Photograph of Josip Broz with wife Pelagija and son Zarko


Zagreb 1927 Sepia-photograph 9 x 13.5 cm The photograph was taken at an unknown photographic studio in Zagreb. Pelagija sits in half-profile, Josip Broz, in a suit, is standing on the right, while son Zarko, in a sailor's suit, is standing on the left. J. Broz Tito, Sabrana djela, I, Maj 1926 - avgust 1928, Beograd, 1977, pages 164, 167, 195, 270, 275, 297, 303; S. Koprivica-Ostric, Tito u Bjelolvaru, Zagreb, 1979; V. Dedijer, Novi prilozi za biografiju Josipa Broza Tita, Zagreb - Rijeka 1980, pages 71 i 119; J. Ridley, Tito, A Biography, London, 1994, passim. Daughter of a rich miller, Pelagija (Polka), nee Denisovna Belousova, Broz (1904-1967), was born in the USSR in the village of Mihajlovka near Omsk. On September 7th 1920 she married Josip Broz in Bogoljubovsk near Omsk. They had four children, and Zarko was the youngest and only surviving son. Pelagija divorced J. Broz in 1936. She died in 1967 in the USSR.




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