14 Facts About Maximilian Kravkov

Maximilian Alexeyevich Kravkov was a Russian writer, geologist and explorer of Siberia.

Maximilian Alexeyevich Kravkov was born on 10 September 1887 in Ryazan.

Maximilian Kravkov was brought up by his aunt Elena Pavlovna Kravkova.

In 1898 Maximilian Kravkov moved to his mother's place in Moscow and started to attend the Fifth Moscow Gimnasium, but due to the acute condition of health of Antonina Kravkova he had to go back to Ryazan soon.

Since 1904 Maximilian Kravkov closely cooperated with the Ryazan organization of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party: kept at home a mimeographmachine, disseminated propaganda materials, in summer 1907 was engaged in propaganda efforts among the peasants of the Ryazhsk uyezd of the Ryazan Governorate.

In 1913, Maximilian Kravkov was deported to the village of Tayshet in the Kansk Region of the Krasnoyarsk uyesd of the Yeniseysk Governorate.

Maximilian Kravkov lived in Tayshet up to the February Revolution of 1917.

Maximilian Kravkov worked hard at the museum's arrangement, was responsible for Geology Section and carried on the educational work among the youth.

In November 1922 Maximilian Kravkov Krvakov was arrested by the Novonikolayevsk State Political Directorate on a new suspicion of his membership to the SR party.

In 1925 Maximilian Kravkov organized an expedition to the Salair from where he brought a number of valuable exhibits for the museum.

In March 1931 Maximilian Kravkov was arrested on a charge of his membership in a counterrevolutionary organization of the former Lieutenant General Vasily Boldyrev.

In May 1937 Maximilian Kravkov was arrested on a charge of his participation in the Japanese-SR Terrorist Subversive Espionage Organization.

Maximilian Kravkov was found guilty, sentenced to death and executed on 12 October 1937.

In 1926 Maximilian Kravkov married Irina Iliodorovna Rossinskaya, a choreographic teacher.