First wife of Leon Trotsky
Sokolovskaya and her friends, 1897. Back row (from left to right): Ilya Sokolovsky (Sokolovskaya's brother, sitting on the left), Aleksandra Sokolovskaya (standing on the center), Lev Trotsky (sitting on the right). Front row: Dr. Grigory Ziv (sitting on the center)
Sokolovskaya and Trotsky sometime before Trotsky's escape from exile, summer 1902
Aleksandra Lvovna Sokolovskaya (Russian: Александра Львовна Соколовская; 1872 – 29 April 1938)[1] was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and Leon Trotsky's first wife. She died in the Great Purges no earlier than 1938.