Career
She perished in the Great Purges no earlier than 1938. Sokolovskaya was a Marxist revolutionary in Nikolaev, Ukraine in the 1890s. They had two daughters, Zinaida Volkova (1901-1933) and Nina Nevelson (1902-1928).
When Trotsky considered escaping from Siberia (alone, of necessity) in the summer of 1902, Sokolovskaya fully endorsed his plan.
Not much is known about Sokolovskaya"s life post-1902. Her daughters were mostly raised by David and Anna Bronstein, Trotsky"s wealthy parents, in Yanovka, Ukraine.
According to the family, Sokolovskaya was an educator and was close to Lenin"s widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, in the early 1930s. Sokolovskaya was arrested and exiled in 1935.
She was last seen in a Kolyma labor camp by Nadezhda Joffe, Adolph Joffe"s daughter.