Boris Borisovich Krasin (3 (15) April 1884, Tyumen–21 June 1936) was a Russian musician who was politically active in Proletkult and the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians. [1]
Boris was the fifth and youngest son of Boris Ivanovich Krasin, chief of police in Tyumen. Leonid Krasin was one of his brothers. [2]
Krasin was head of the Moscow Proletkult's Music Department in which capacity he claimed that the music provided in restaurants and cabarets was anti-art. [1]
He was one of the founders of the Union of Composers in 1932. He joined Alexei Ogolevets to found the Autonomous Research Section (ANTES) of this organisation in Moscow, which played a major role in the research and development of electronic musical instruments. [3]
He set poems to music such as Andrei Bely's "Чающие" (Tea Lovers), [4] "Одиночество" (Loneliness) [5] and "Осень" (Autumn). [6]
He is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. [7]