Krasilnikov, Alexander Alexandrovich

Alexander Aleksandrovich Krasilnikov was born on February 6, 1861 in St. Petersburg in the family of an honorary citizen, Tsarskoye Selo merchant of the 1st guild Alexander Fedorovich and Josephine Iosifovny Krasilnikov. He graduated from the Nikolaev Cavalry School, cornet of the Life Guards of the cavalry regiment from 1884. In 1901 he retired with the rank of a retired guard captain. In 1909, under the patronage of P. G. Kurlov , who knew him well through the joint service in the Horse Guards Regiment. He began service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in November he was sent to Paris, to the post of head of the Foreign Agent Agency of the Police Department . From 1911, he was considered an official of special assignments under the Minister of the Interior, continuing to live in Paris and fulfill the duties of the head of the Foreign Agency.

By February 1917, A. Krasilnikov had 32 secret officers in the agency abroad, of whom 27 were on the general list, and 5 were in his special order. 15 of them were in France, 5 people worked in Switzerland, 3 people - in the United States, one - in Scandinavia and one - in Holland. The activities of the SRs covered 39 people. The second place, albeit with a significant margin from the socialist revolutionaries, was anarchists and social democrats , in which, respectively, 10 people each worked. 9 people at different times covered in some way or another the activities of Vladimir Burtsev .

Having learned about the abdication of Nicholas II , Krasilnikov dismissed the staff, locked and sealed in the presence of the Russian ambassador in Paris , A.P. Izvolsky, the premises of the office and archive of the Foreign Agency. The members of the so-called Commission of the Provisional Government, who were here some time afterwards for official closure, were mainly interested in the contents of the archive of the Agency, found him, surprisingly, in perfect order. Soon, however, it turned out that before we sealed the room, Krasilnikov nevertheless removed some of the most confidential papers. However, he did not refuse to cooperate with the commission, giving her detailed testimony, although, naturally, no one could force him to do so. It was possible to return, thanks to the loyalty shown by him to the Provisional Government, and some of the archival documents he exported.

After 1917, Krasilnikov went into banking and lived in Belgium in the 1920s

• Encyclopedia of the secret services of Russia / Avt.-comp. A.I. Kolpakidi . - M .: AST, Astrel, Transitbook, 2004. - p. 113. - 800 p. - ISBN 5-17018975-3 .