Sinaida Lvovna Volkova
Sinaida Lwowna Wolkowa ( Russian Зинаида Львовна Волкова ; née Bronstein, former Moglina; * March 14th July / March 27th 1901 greg. , Irkutsk Governorate , Russian Empire ; † January 5, 1933 in Berlin ) was a Russian revolutionary and the eldest daughter of Leon Trotsky .
Life
Sinaida was born in 1901 as the first child of Alexandra Sokolowskaja (1872-1938) and Leo Bronstein (1879-1940), who later became the leader of the revolution Trotsky . The couple had been exiled to Irkutsk Governorate in Siberia the year before . Since her parents were intensely politically active, she grew up mainly with her grandparents, David and Anna Bronstein.
After the October Revolution of 1917 , she married Sachar Moglin, with whom she had a daughter, Alexandra Moglina (1923-1989). After the separation, she married Plato Ivanovich Volkov (1898-1936). Their son Vsevolod "Esteban" Wolkow was born in 1926. After Stalin came to power, Plato Volkov was banished to Siberia for Trotskyism . In 1928 Sinaida cared for her sister Nina Nevelson (* 1902), who was dying of tuberculosis, for three months. She was also infected with the disease.
In 1931 she received permission to travel with her son to Prinkipo , her father's place of exile. He sent her to Berlin, where she was cared for by Franz and Alexandra Pfemfert and her half-brother Leo Sedow (1906–1938), among others . Through therapy with the well-known psychiatrist Arthur Kronfeld , which Alexandra Pfemfert had suggested to Trotsky, she tried to get her serious psychological problems (depression, nightmares, hallucinations) under control. After she had been cut off by withdrawal of Soviet citizenship the way back to her husband and daughter, she committed in 1933 out of desperation suicide .
In the following years, Sinaida's parents, her two half-brothers, her husband and her ex-husband were murdered by Stalinists . Her son Esteban accidentally survived an attack by Stalinist agents on the house of the Trotskies in Mexico City in May 1940 . He later headed the Trotsky Museum there.
Trivia
In the film ZINA by Ken McMullen Zinaida is of Domiziana Giordano played.
literature
- Jacquy Chemouni: Trotsky, le père. L 'attitude de Trotsky à l'égard des troubles mentaux et de la psychanalyse de sa fille Zina (à travers une correspondance inédite) . Cahiers Léon Trotsky N ° 74, Juin 2001, pp. 39-94, repr. udT Le père . L'attidude de Trotsky à l'égard des troubles mentaux et de la psychanalyse de sa fille Zina (à travers une correspondance inédite). In: Trotsky et la psychanalyse. Ed. In Press, Paris 2004 ( Collection Explorations psychanalytiques) pp. 213-262
Web links
- Genealogy of the Bronstein family
- Youtube trailer for the film ZINA , from which the scenes: Trozki dictating here and Sinaida saying goodbye to her therapist Arthur Kronfeld here , played by Ian McKellen (see also here )
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Service: Trotsky: a biography . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03615-4 , pp. 62 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Volkova, Sinaida Lvovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Волкова, Зинаида Львовна (Russian); Bronstein, Sinaida Lwowna (maiden name); Moglina, Sinaida Lvovna (name during marriage to Zechar Moglina); Volkova, Zinaida; Volkova, Zina; Volkova, Zinushka |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian revolutionary and daughter of Leon Trotsky |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Irkutsk Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1933 |
| Place of death | Berlin |