Nikolai Kishkin

Nikolai Mikhailovich Kishkin (Nov. 29 (Dec. 11), 1864, Moscow, 16 March, 1930, Moscow) was a Russian politician on the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democrat Party (Kadets).[1] He was Deputy Chief representative of the All Russia Union of Cities.[1] Following the February Revolution of 1917 he became a commissar of the Provisional Government in Moscow, being appointed Minister of Public Charities on 25 September (8 October) that year.[1]

On 25 October, whilst the Bolshevik seizure of power was in progress he was appointed dictator by the cabinet meeting of the Provisional Government. Assuming this role at 4:00 pm, he immediately set about appointing assistants and replacing General Polkolnikov as commander of the Petrograd Military District, with General Jaques Bagratuni. The principal consequence of this was that a number of Polkolnikov colleagues immediately resigned or quietly watched events unfold from their windows.[2]:288


References
  1. "Nikolai Kishkin". TheFreeDictionary.com. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  2. Rabinowitch, Alexander (1976). The Bolsheviks Come to Power. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
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