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View the Trotsky Ax on display in the Museum's Lethal Action exhibit. The Enigma Machine, the Trotsky Ice Axe, and James Bond’s Aston Martin. In 2017, Melton donated his entire 5,000-item collection to the International Spy Museum, including the ice ax. as well as to figure out why Mercader, the assassin sent by Joseph Stalin, Ramon Mercader, used the axe to kill Trotsky. It took Keith Melton, an espionage historian and collector, nearly four decades to find it. For 40 years, his daughter slept with it under her bed. Search the entire National Gallery of Art collection by artists last name, key words in the title, key words in object information, credit line, provenance name. A number of important works recently acquired are featured here. When its museum director retired in the 1960s, he received the axe as a retirement gift. The National Gallery is constantly building its collections through gift and purchase. The Mexican Police Department kept the axe as evidence following the assassination, later putting it on exhibit. Russian Sacred Arts Gallery Explore icons created for the veneration of saints, elaborate chalices used for communion and vestments, chalice covers, altar cloths, and other religious textiles. Look closely: a rust mark from his bloody fingerprint is still visible on the blade. Moments later, Trotsky lay bleeding on the floor, victim of a grisly blow from an axe to the head that ended his life the next day.Īssassin Ramón Mercader hid the shortened ice climbing axe under his suit jacket, suspended by string. On August 20, 1940, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky welcomed a man he thought was a friend Ramón Mercader into his private study.
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