Leon Trotsky at Age 9 |
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Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) photographed in 1888 as a child at age nine. He was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on November 7, 1879, to David Leontyevich Bronstein (1847–1922) and Anna Lvovna (née Zhivotovskaya) (1850–1910), and grew up as part of a Ukrainian Jewish family in what is now Bereslavka, Ukraine. At age eight, he was enrolled in a German-language school at Odessa, Ukraine. |