Boris Krasin (policeman)

Boris Ivanovich Krasin was policeman in Imperial Russia. He served a police chief in Kurgan and Tyumen. Krasin gave access to the jail in Tyumen to the American explorer, George Kennan. Before his trip to Russia, Kennan had been a supporter of the Tsarist regime, but what he encountered in the jail contributed to his subsequent condemnation of Tsarism.

Family life

Boris was the son of a solicitor Ivan Vasilyevich Krasin, a Titular Councillor - a formal rank in the Imperial Table of Ranks. He married Antonina Grigorievna Kropanina, the youngest daughter of a prominent local merchant. Together they had five children:

Leonid Krasin : Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary politician, and a Soviet diplomat
Herman Krasin : the first director of the State Institute of Structures
Alexander Borisovich, engineer
Boris Krasin : composer and Proletkult activist