15 Facts About Pyotr Krasikov

Pyotr Krasikov was the first Procurator General of the Soviet Union, serving from 1924 to 1933.

Pyotr Krasikov was born in Krasnoyarsk, where he was brought up from the age of 12 by his grandfather, an Archpriest, after the early death of his father, a lawyer.

Pyotr Krasikov was expelled from the Krasnoyarsk gymnasium for bad behaviour, but reinstated after his grandfather intervened.

In 1895 despite the police supervision, Pyotr Krasikov managed to create the first Marxist circle in Krasnoyarsk among students of the paramedic and midwife school.

In 1897 Lenin passed through Krasnoyarsk on his way into exile in a Siberian village, and met Pyotr Krasikov and became close to each other.

Pyotr Krasikov saw Lenin's comrades in the Petersburg Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class.

For correspondence and communication with political exiles Pyotr Krasikov was extended the period of public supervision of the police for another year.

Pyotr Krasikov later choose Pskov as his residing place and joined the local Iskra-ist.

Pyotr Krasikov was involved in the illegal transportation of Iskra from Germany to Russia.

Pyotr Krasikov was on trial in Germany, where Karl Liebknecht defended him.

Pyotr Krasikov returned to Russia during the 1905 Revolution, and was in charge of the agitation department of the Petersburg Party Committee.

Pyotr Krasikov was Deputy People's Commissar of Justice from 1918.

Pyotr Krasikov was the initiator of the first Soviet anti-religious publication, Revolution and Church.

Pyotr Krasikov was Prosecutor General of the Supreme Court from 1924, and Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court from 1933 to 1938.

Pyotr Krasikov died in 1939 in the city of Zheleznovodsk, where he was being treated for his illness, and was buried there.