Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov (5 October 1870 – 20 August 1939) was a functionary of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) and the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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He was the first Procurator General of the Soviet Union.

Pyotr Krasikov was involved in revolutionary politics since 1892, when he joined the Emancipation of Labour

Emancipation of Labour

Emancipation of Labour group was the first Russian Marxist group. Founded by Georgi Plekhanov, Vasily Ignatov, Vera Zasulich, Leo Deutsch, and Pavel Axelrod in Geneva in 1883. Leo Deutsch left the group in 1884 when he was arrested and sent to Siberia. Sergey Ingerman joined the group at 1888...

 group. Later he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party , also known as Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or Russian Social Democratic Party, was a revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organizations into one party...

. After the Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution of 1917

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 his positions were related to legal issues and he is considered to be among the principal creators of the Soviet legal system, along with Andrey Vyshinsky

Andrey Vyshinsky

Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinsky – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.He is known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow trials and in the Nuremberg trials. He was the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953, after having served as Deputy Foreign...

. He was deputy People's Commissar of Justice since 1918, Prosecutor of the Supreme Court

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 since 1924, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court, 1933-1938.

He was one of the few Old Bolshevik

Old Bolshevik

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s who died of natural causes.

Israel Getzler, in Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat (Cambridge U.P., 1967, p. 74) says he was "intensely disliked by all and sundry [with the exception of Lenin]... [Boris Nikolaevsky] sums him up as a drunken brawler... J. Steinberg, Als ich Volkskommisar war (Munich, 1929), has devoted an entire chapter... to Krasikov's misdeeds as co-chairman (together with the notorious M. Iu. Kozlovsky) of the Cheka of the Petrograd Soviet in the winter of 1917-18."