Leonid Krasin  Leonid Borisovich Krasin (; 15 July 1870 – 24 November 1926) was a Russian engineer, social entrepreneur and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat. Krasin was born in Kurgan, Tobolsk Governorate in Siberia. His father, Boris Ivanovich Krasin, was the local chief of police. The young Leonid was a star pupil at school, and met the American explorer George Kennan when he visited Siberia. Krasin joined the Social Democratic Labor Party during the 1890s. Arrested towards the end of the 1890s, he was sent to internal exile in Siberia where he worked as a draughtsman on the Trans-Siberian Railway. He graduated from Kharkov Technological Institute in 1901. In the 1903 split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, Krasin supported the latter, and was elected to the Central Committee the same year. On his release from exile in 1900 he moved to Baku, where Joseph Stalin was also active at the time. While there, Krasin used his financial contacts to help establish an illegal printing press which was the main vehicle for Vladimir Lenin's newspaper. He left Baku in 1904 to work as the chief engineer of Savva Morozov. His activities during the 1905 Revolution were primarily in sourcing finance for the Bolshevik revolutionaries, including organizing bank robberies. Krasin helped organize the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, a bloody crime that took place in the middle of Yerevan Square, killing forty and injuring 50. Krasin enjoyed the excitement of terrorism. His home was the main laboratory from which were manufactured the bombs used to attack Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin. The quest for excitement caused a break with Lenin. Lenin, who was usually acerbic in such circumstances, remained complimentary towards Krasin, and continued to exhort him to rejoin the Party. In 1908 he left Russia and in 1909 collaborated with Alexander Bogdanov in the launch of Vpered. Later he withdrew from political activities for many years. He had a successful career as an electrical engineer, becoming a millionaire. After the February Revolution of 1917 he returned and rejoined the Bolsheviks. In the Russian Bolshevik government Krasin was People's Commissar of Foreign Trade from 1920 to 1924. Krasin met E. F. Wise in Copenhagen in April 1920. Wise was representing the Supreme Economic Council. It was in this capacity that he negotiated and signed the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement of March 1921.