Leon Trotsky
The other Russian was Leon Trotsky, a leading communist theorist and revolutionary, but who was outdone by Stalin to succeed Lenin, was killed in Mexico City in 1940 with an ice pick by an assassin on orders by Stalin. It was painter Diego Rivera who asked the Mexican president to grant asylum to Trotsky. While in Mexico he lived for about two years at the home of painter couple Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo (with whom he had an affair). One of the foremost advocates of the permanent revolution died in the country were the party of permanent institutional revolution (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) ruled the country from 1929 to 2000.
Anna Pavlova
Recently learnt of another well-known Russian to visit and possibly to influence Mexico, the famous ballerina Anna Pavlova visited Mexico City in 1918, where she also performed Mexican Dances in open-air venue of the Plaza de Toros in front of a broad audience of 25,000 people. Mexicans were enthusiastic about her references to traditional Mexican dances. It has been said that at the time, the Mexican elite cared more about European art and style than about local traditions. Anna Pavlova may have changed that.
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