Lubitz' TrotskyanaNet

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Exterior views of the Trotsky House and Museum in Coyoacán (Calle Viena 10, Av. Rio Churubusco 410)

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Part of exterior facade, at the corner of Calle Viena and Av. Morelos

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Another part of the exterior facade

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Watchtower as seen from Av. Rio Churubusco

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Iron gate at Calle Viena 33 (former entrance to the house)

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Plate at the exterior facade, indicating that Leon Trotsky once lived in that house and that it is now forming part of the Trotsky Museum (entrance via Av. Rio Churubusco 410)

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Gate to the Trotsky Museum (new building)

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Interior views of the Trotsky Museum (new building)

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Part of the Museum's library; sitting in front: Esteban Volkov, Trotsky's grandson

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Part of the Museum's library

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Photographs from the exhibition rooms (temporary exhibitions of artists and permanent exhibition of photographs, posters, documents and artefacts related to Trotsky's life and work), inter alia:

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Trotsky bust sculpted by Duncan P. Ferguson (1943)

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Trotsky's Red Army cap

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Passage from the Museum (new building) to the garden of the old House

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Sitemap with suggested route for visitors

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The garden, inner court and interior facades of Trotsky's House

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The rabbit hutches

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The gravestone and urn grave of Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova

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The inscription on gravestone

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Facade and entrance of Esteban Volkov's sleeping room

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The guards' house

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Plaque in memory of R.S. Harte (guard), murdered May 1940

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Interior views of Trotsky's House

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Impressions from Trotsky's study and office

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Reproduction of Trotsky bust sculpted by Claire Sheridan (1920)

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Trotsky's dictaphone

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Trotsky's desk

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Trotsky's glasses [presented in exhibition room]

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Part of Trotsky's library

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The chaise longue on which Trotsky used to have a siesta [in the study/office]

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Drawing by V. Kibalchich [this and other works about Trotsky by the Russian-Mexican artist were presented in an exhibition of the Trotsky Museum in 2006]

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The sleeping room of Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova. Photo no. 48: Bullet holes after the 24 May 1940 raid at Trotsky's House

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Bedroom of Trotsky's grandson Esteban Volkov (aged 14 at the time of Trotsky's assassination)

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The bathroom

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The kitchen

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The dining room

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The office. Photo no. 62: Natalia Sedova's desk in the office

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Gabriel García Higueras, who made the photographs presented here, in the Trotsky Museum (August 2006)