2023-06-18 23:11:02
Mexico
Death of the grandson and guardian of the legacy of Leon Trotsky
Grandson of Leon Trotsky, Esteban Volkov died Sunday at the age of 97 in Mexico City, where he was considered the last witness to the assassination of his grandfather in 1940.
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Esteban Volkov continued to live in Mexico after Leon Trotsky’s death, where in 1990 he founded the museum in Leon Trotsky’s former home.
The grandson and guardian of the legacy of Russian communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Esteban Volkov, has died in Mexico City at the age of 97, the museum he founded has announced.
“Our director, comrade and friend Esteban Volkov left this world at the age of 97,” the Leon Trotsky House Museum announced on its Facebook page. This museum is located in the Mexico City house where Trotsky, exiled to Mexico in January 1937, had lived until his assassination in August 1940.
Born in Ukraine in 1926, Esteban Volkov arrived in Mexico at the age of 13 thanks to the steps taken by his grandfather. Her mother, Zinaida -daughter of Leon Trotsky- had committed suicide in Paris while fleeing the regime of Joseph Stalin, and her father had been sent to the gulag in the 1930s.
“The most important task of his life”
He was considered in Mexico as the last living witness to the assassination of Leon Trotsky, killed with an ice ax in the head by the secret agent of the NKVD Ramon Mercader. In an interview with the BBC, Esteban Volkov said he was coming home from school when he saw a police car in front of the house where he lived with his grandfather, then saw the latter’s bloody body on the floor.
After this crime, Esteban Volkov had continued to live in Mexico, where he had studied chemistry and founded in 1990 the museum in the former house of Leon Trotsky, in the popular district of Coyoacan. Esteban Volkov “has accomplished the most important task of his life: the defense of the ideas and the career of his grandfather”, welcomed the museum in its press release.
(AFP)
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