Content and Context: Leonid Borisovič Krasin Papers (original) (raw)

Biographical / Historical Note	Full name: Leonid Borisovič Krasin (Красин Леонид Борисович); born in Kurgan, Russia 1870, died in London 1926; Soviet diplomat; social democrat from 1890; elected member of the Bolshevik Central Committee in 1905; took part in the Brest Litovsk peace negotiations in 1918; appointed Commissar for Trade and for Transport in 1919; established diplomatic and trade relations with Western Europe and attended international economical conferences; in 1924 appointed as Soviet Ambassador to France, in 1925 to Great Britain.
Acquisition	The IISH acquired this collection in 1936 from his widow in London with financial support of the Centrale Arbeiders- Verzekerings- en Deposito-Bank (the Centrale). The collection was mentioned in the Annual Report of 1936 (p. 21). An accrual came from his daughter Ludmilla Mathias-Krasina in 1977.
Content	Some 150 letters by Krasin in Soviet Russia to his wife and daughters abroad 1917-1925 and n.d.; handwritten notes on Soviet foreign policy, etc. c. 1921-1925; personal documents c. 1880-1925; typescript of 'Memoirs of an old Revolutionist' by N. Burenin(Буренин Николай Евгеньевич) 1931.Separated photgraphs added in the list in 2023.
Processing Information	List by Leo van Rossum, edited by Tiny de Boer in 2010Revised for purposes of digitization by Eva van Oene in 2015.
Alternative Form of Material	Complete papers digitized as part of the Centrale Project 2012-2016.Photographs (inv.nos. 22-35, 37-48), which were added later in the list, digitized in 2024.