Khrustalev, Petr

(real name, Georgii Stepanovich Nosar’). Born 1879 in Pereiaslav, now Pereiaslav-Khmel’nitskii; died there 1919. Russian political figure. Member of the RSDLP (1906–09); Menshevik.

In the summer of 1905, Khrustalev joined the Union of Liberation; an advocate of the creation of a liberal, nonparty worker’s organization, he was arrested for his activities. In October he was elected chairman of the St. Petersburg soviet, of which he was a nonparty member. Arrested again in November, he was exiled to Siberia in 1906.

Khrustalev escaped abroad in 1907 and served as a delegate to the Fifth (London) Congress of the RSDLP. He was a Liquidator during the reactionary period of 1907 to 1910 and then withdrew from politics. He returned to Russia in 1914. After collaborating with P. P. Skoropadskii and S. V. Petliura in 1918, Khrustalev was shot for counterrevolutionary activities.