Zinaida Volkova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Zinaida Volkova

Soviet revolutionary

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1901

Place of Birth: Irkutsk Governorate

Date of Death: 05-Jan-1933

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Zinaida Volkova

  • Zinaida Lvovna Volkova (née Bronstein; Russian: ?????´?? ????´??? ??´?????; 27 March 1901 – 5 January 1933) was a Russian Marxist.
  • She was Leon Trotsky's first daughter by his first wife, Aleksandra Sokolovskaya.
  • She was raised by her aunt Yelizaveta, sister of Trotsky, after their parents divorced.
  • Her younger sister, Niña, stayed with her mother. She married twice, and had a daughter by her first husband and a son by her second.
  • Both husbands died during the Great Purges.
  • In January 1931, Volkova was allowed to leave Russia to visit her father in his exile in Turkey, taking only her younger child, her son.
  • She left her daughter in the care of the girl's father, her first husband.
  • Suffering from tuberculosis and depression, and prevented from returning to the Soviet Union, Volkova committed suicide in Berlin in January 1933.

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