Lev Sedov— Trotsky's eldest son, was born on February 24, 1906 in the northern capital. In this case, the apple fell not far from the apple tree. Lev Lvovich considered himself a true revolutionary, believed in Marxism and Trotskyism.

Already at the age of 17, he joined the opposition, distributed leaflets with opposition slogans, for which he went into exile with his father. Leo, along with his father, became a real enemy of Stalin. Therefore, later, together with his father, he had to leave his homeland. He remained in France, where, according to the official version, he died after appendicitis surgery. After the death of Lev Lvovich, rumors began to spread in the Union that the "son" (such a pseudonym was given to him) was specially eliminated by order of Stalin. This idea was also prompted by the fact that Lev Sedov's wife Anna Ryabukhina was shot in the same year.

It is said that Trotsky, upon learning of his son's death, wept, because Lev Lvovich was not only flesh of the flesh, but also a loyal friend in the struggle for the "just cause". Trotsky also had a daughter , Zinaida. Trotsky's eldest daughter was born in Siberia when Lev and his wife Alexandra Sokolovskaya were in exile. In 1902, Trotsky and Sokolovskaya went abroad to Paris under false documents. The parents did not take their daughter with them, they left her with Lev Trotsky's parents in Ukraine. Trotsky then assumed that after some time, together with his wife, he would return for his daughter.

But everything turned out differently. Lev Davidovich in Paris ... fell in love with the same Natalia Sedova. Trotsky eventually broke up with his wife, and although relations with Sokolovskaya remained even, he practically did not see Zinaida. The daughter, of course, was offended by her father for such an attitude, but at the same time she considered him a great man and herself, having grown up, was carried away by the ideas of communism. Zinaida partly repeated the fate of her mother. She divorced her husband and stayed with her daughter Sasha. She tried to create another family, remarried the teacher Platon Volkov, gave birth to a son Vsevolod. But after her father went into exile again, Zinaida's husband was arrested and shot.

Zina herself also spent some time in prison. At that time, she was already suffering from a serious illness — tuberculosis. In 1931, she left, taking only her young son with her, to Turkey to undergo a course of treatment. But there was no positive effect. Zinaida decided to try treatment in Germany, in Berlin. It was there that she learned that she had been deprived of Soviet citizenship in her homeland. In addition, the German authorities demanded that Trotsky's daughter leave the country. Zinaida realized that she might never see her daughter again. This caused her nervous breakdown: she has always been a very nervous and receptive person, often fell into depression. This time the depression was so strong that Zinaida could not cope with it. Do you think it's worth adding them to the mod?