Background
Boris Brasol was born in Poltava, Ukraine (then part of Imperial Russia), in 1885. His father was the notable homeopath Lev Brasol.
criminologist lawyer lecturer author
Boris Brasol was born in Poltava, Ukraine (then part of Imperial Russia), in 1885. His father was the notable homeopath Lev Brasol.
B.L., U. Petrograd, 1912. Special science police training U. Lausanne, 1912.
After graduation from the law department of St Petersburg University, Brasol served in the Imperial Russian Ministry of Justice, where he took part in the prosecution of the Beilis blood libel case. In 1912, he was sent to Lausanne to study forensic science. During World War I, Brasol held the rank of Lieutenant in the Tsar's army.
In 1916, he was recalled from the front and sent to the US to work as a lawyer for an Anglo-Russian purchasing committee. After the October Revolution in Russia Brasol stayed in the US as an emigrant. During his time in the United States, Brasol was an ardent supporter of restoration of the monarchy in Russia, and served as the official representative of the Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia in the United States.
Brasol had an extensive publishing career in the United States. In 1935, he founded the Pushkin Committee, and from 1937 until 1963 served as President of the Pushkin Society in America. Several authors link Brasol's name with the first US edition of the of the Learned Elders of Zion, which was titled "The and World Revolution, ' of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom'" (Boston: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers, 1920).
Brasol pursued a successful career as a literary critic and criminologist and published several books in each of these fields. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx), New York. Some of his papers are preserved in the Library of Congress Manuscript Collection.
He published "Socialism vs. Civilization" (1920), "The World at the Cross Roads" (1921), "The Balance Sheet of Sovietism" (1922), "Elements of Crime" (1927), "The Mighty Three: Poushkin, Gogol, Dostoievsky" (1934).
Member Ecclesiast. Council, Russian Orthodox Churches in American, 1933-1937. Fellow American Geography Society. Member International Criminalistic Academy, International Philosophical Society (Russian section), Society Preservation Russian Cultural Values, Military Order World Wars, Edgar Allen Poe Society American (vice president, life.
Married Eleanor Kazarin-Okulicz, September 28, 1913.