Aleksandra L'vovna Sokolovskaya () (
1872 - 1938?) was a
Russian Marxist revolutionary and
Leon Trotsky's first wife. She perished in the
Great Purges no earlier than
1938.
Sokolovskaya was a Marxist revolutionary in
Nikolaev, Ukraine in the 1890s. She was Leon Trotsky's first wife in 1899-1902, while the two of them were in prison and in
Siberian exile together. They had two daughters,
Nina Nevelson (1901) and
Zinaida Volkova (1902).
When Trotsky considered escaping from Siberia (alone, of necessity) in the summer of 1902, Sokolovskaya fully endorsed his plan. After Trotsky met
Natalia Sedova, his future second wife, in
Paris in late 1902, his first marriage disintegrated, although the two maintained a friendly relationship until the end.
Not much is known about Sokolovskaya's life post-1902. Her daughters were mostly raised by David and Anna Bronstein, Trotsky's wealthy parents, in
Yanovka, Ukraine. Sokolovskaya raised her granddaughter Aleksandra in 1932-1935 after the latter's mother, Zinaida Volkova, was allowed to leave the country in 1931 and her father, Sakhar Moglin, was arrested in 1932. According to the family, Sokolovskaya was an educator and was close to
Lenin's widow,
Nadezhda Krupskaya, in the early 1930s.
Sokolovskaya was arrested and exiled in 1935. She was last seen in a
Kolyma labor camp by
Nadezhda Joffe, Adolph Joffe's daughter.
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