Miguel Krassnoff considers himself a relative of Pyotr Krasnov, a Don Cossack and White Russian military officer who fought in the Russian revolution, who subsequently emigrated to Germany and collaborated with the Nazi regime. Considered to be the father of Miguel, Semyon Krasnov was a nephew (more precisely, second cousin once removed) of Pyotr Krasnov, and his chief of staff and a Major-General in the German service. May 28, 1945, they were both repatriated to the Soviets in Lienz and sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in 1947.