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Leonid Krasin

1870 - 1926

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Leonid Borisovich Krasin (Russian: Леонид Борисович Красин; 27 July [O.S. 15 July] 1870 – 24 November 1926) was a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. In 1924 he became the first Soviet ambassador to France. A year later, he left Paris to become ambassador to London, where he remained until his death. He was an early and close associate of Vladimir Lenin and his financier and the first finance wizard of the Communist Party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Krasin is the 8,422nd most popular politician (down from 8,310th in 2019), the 739th most popular biography from Russia (up from 801st in 2019) and the 223rd most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leonid Krasin ranks 8,422 out of 19,576Before him are Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha, John II, Duke of Bavaria, Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, Mohamed Ennaceur, Zhang Xun, and Grigory Petrovsky. After him are Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne, Charles Savarin, Agum II, Albert Forster, Gabby Giffords, and Íngrid Betancourt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Leonid Krasin ranks 71Before him are David Riazanov, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Guillaume Lekeu, Elizabeth Hesselblad, Vladimir Purishkevich, and Géza Maróczy. After him are Saki, Conrad Böcker, Amadeo Giannini, Georges Claude, Emil Orlík, and Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Among people deceased in 1926, Leonid Krasin ranks 45Before him are Edwin Abbott Abbott, Robert Todd Lincoln, Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, Ivana Kobilca, Émile Coué, and Nikolay Chkheidze. After him are Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Victor Babeș, Léon Charles Thévenin, Albert Robida, and Krste Misirkov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Krasin ranks 739 out of 3,761Before him are Zinaida Portnova (1926), Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Andrei Mironov (1941), Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), Eugen Leviné (1883), and Yegor Gaidar (1956). After him are Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł (1667), Faina Ranevskaya (1896), Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Andrianov (1952), and Konstantin Korovin (1861).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Leonid Krasin ranks 223Before him are Catherine of Brandenburg (1604), Praskovia Saltykova (1664), Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952), Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), Eugen Leviné (1883), and Yegor Gaidar (1956). After him are Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł (1667), Faina Ranevskaya (1896), Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886), Talabuga (1300), Ivan Susanin (1501), and Nikolai Voznesensky (1903).