Tag #125010 - Interview #78040 (Vladimir Tarskiy)

My father’s older sister Alexandra was born in the 1870s. She was actively involved in underground revolutionary activities. She became Trotsky’s [1] wife in the 1890s. According to my mother, my father didn’t speak well of Trotsky. Probably the reason was that he left his sister with two children. Also, the shadow of Trotsky probably fell on him as well as his brother Ilia and his sister Alexandra who all perished in the Gulag [2] during the period of Stalin’s arrests [the so-called Great Terror] [3]. They were blamed of relations with Trotsky, who was in disgrace, and sent to the Gulag.