Trotsky House

I visited Trotsky's house having first been to Casa Azul, which was just around the corner and an infinitely brighter and more cheerful place. This, then, made for an interesting contrast. It's the house itself which is really worth seeing, and it gives you a shocking insight into the way Trotsky lived out his final years after being exiled from the Soviet Union. However, the first room you enter is full of photographs of Trotsky and his wife arriving and consequently living in Mexico- included here are pictures of the couple with Rivera and Kahlo, with whom they lived for the first few years of their exile, at the Casa Azul. Trotsky allegedly had an ...  Read the complete review

"Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky? He got an ice-pick ... that made his ears burn ..." I'm probably not alone in the greater part of my knowledge of Leon Trotsky's final days coming from The Stranglers' song. They're right, though. Having somehow survived an earlier attempt on his life, the Russian revolutionary was murdered at his home near Mexico City with an ice-pick to the skull. Seventy-odd years later, the house is preserved much as it was then as Museo Casa de Trotsky (Trotsky's House Museum) in the southern suburb of Coyoacan. Expelled from the Communist Party and exiled from Russia due to differences with Stalin (this is, of ...  Read the complete review