10.01.2023
He was called the Demon of the Revolution, the Red Bonaparte, and even Vladimir Ilyich – “Judas”: Leon Trotsky was certainly a bright personality, although quite disgusting.
An amazing conceit, slipperiness and arrogance, on the one hand, but (let’s be fair) – energy, oratory and the ability to lead people – on the other, did not leave anyone indifferent, especially women.
He, like most revolutionaries, had few novels, but, nevertheless, they were, and even quite bright.
“Grey Mouse”
They lived for 38 years. Trotsky left Sedova for his first wife, Alexandra Sokolovsky. She may have been pretty in her youth, but in most photographs Natalia Ivanovna is a gaunt old woman with a disproportionately large head.
Perhaps this marriage was happy in its own way, but most likely because Lev Davidovich was infatuated (and mutually) exclusively with himself.
For this reason, other women (except the selflessly loving Sedova) did not take root in his life.
“Valkyrie of the Revolution”
Like the famous Larissa Reisner, whose affair was attributed to Trotsky. If there was an affair, it did not last long at all. Curiously enough, according to rumors, it was Trotsky who dumped the brilliant Larissa (and she was indeed an extraordinary woman: revolutionary, journalist, poetess), not she him.
Apparently tired, too bright.
Frieda
It was about the same here. About this famous affair we know for a fact.
In Mexico, at the home of the artist Diego Rivera and his wife, Trotsky, 58, fell in love with 29-year-old Frida Kahlo. Her infatuation is understandable – they were all there, (above all Rivera) crazy about “leftist” ideas and, understandably, the elderly Trotsky was for Frida shrouded in a romantic revolutionary veil.
At the same time, as Trotsky’s biographer Georgi Cherniavsky believed: “Frida hardly had any serious feelings for Lev, but was infatuated with him as a man of celebrity. She strove to humiliate Diego somehow by means of adultery with her husband’s ‘teacher’, to avenge him for his many adulteries.
In general, all ended well, Frida “tired of the old man,” as she wrote to a friend, and Trotsky was tired of Frida. He wrote a penitential letter to Natalia Ivanovna and returned to the bosom of the family.
