Bronstein Trotsky biography

The role is played by Sergey Sosnovsky. Trotsky’s father, David Leontyevich Bronstein, came from the Poltava peasants, and his mother, Anna Lvovna, nee Zhotovskaya, left the city philistine family. David Bronstein was a farmer: first small, then - prosperous. David and Anna Bronsteina, the parents of Leo Trotsky, his father was beautiful in his youth, was built, with a courageous and energetic face ....

Jews-lands were equalized with peasants, not only in rights to G. Typome, cruel, merciless to himself and to other labor of the initial accumulation, my father climbed up Trotsky L. to look into his eyes to make sure of his self-confidence, determination to achieve his. He felt “in its plate” in any society, although he was illiterate, and listened attentively to his wife, who, stammering, read the newspaper news to him ”in X from the Jewish agricultural colony in the Poltava region, the family with two children moved to the estate of the Yelisavetgrad district of the Kherson province, where he rented and then bought the ten.

Almost all the inhabitants of Yanovka worked in the fields of Bronstein. Later, David built a mill and a brick factory in the village. My childhood was in childhood of hunger and cold. By the time of my birth, the parental family already knew prosperity. But it was the harsh prosperity of people who rose from need and did not want to stop halfway. All muscles were tense, all thoughts were aimed at labor and accumulation.

In this everyday life, the children got a modest place. We did not know the need, but we did not know the generosity of life, her affection, Trotsky L. Father in a civil war lost the estate and was persecuted. By the beginning of the year, he managed to get to Moscow, where he will work for several years in a mill in the suburbs and will die from rash typhoid in the year.

Trotsky did not allow his father to bury his father in the Jewish cemetery, and the grave was dug in the courtyard of the house where David Leontyevich lived. In total, David and Anna Bronstein had eight children, four died in childhood. The fate of the rest was dramatic. The eldest of the brothers, Alexander, learned at the agronomist, did not participate in politics, but was shot in the year.

The eldest of the sisters, Elizabeth, married a medic and became a dentist herself. I died in the year. The younger sister Olga graduated from the highest women's courses and joined the revolutionary activity. Subsequently, she became the wife of L. Kamenev Rosenfeld. In the year she was sent to Tashkent. After the arrest and execution of her husband, she was arrested, shot in the year.

Their two sons, Alexander and Yuri, were shot in a year at the age of 29 and 20.