Ten Days That Shook the World · Character
Nikolai Kishkin
Minister of State Welfare in the Provisional Government.
minor
Also known as Kishkin
First appearance: i background
Nikolai Kishkin shows up with force in III: On the Eve. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Appointed Special Commissar to keep order in Petrograd, assisted by Rutenburg and Paltchinsky.
Nikolai Kishkin first appears in 0011 i background.
In III: On the Eve: Appointed Special Commissar to keep order in Petrograd, assisted by Rutenburg and Paltchinsky.
Later, in Appendix to Chapter IV: Invested with extraordinary powers by the Provisional Government to restore order in Petrograd; relieves Polkovnikov and attempts to coordinate defense.
Free preview opens at this moment — character cards, Character Web, and themes sit beside the text as you read.
Character Web
7 connectionsA slice of how Nikolai Kishkin sits in the book — open the reader for the full interactive map.
Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Provisional Government and Counter-Revolutionaries
- Protagonist
- Bolshevik and Menshevik Figures
- Diverse Revolutionary Participants
+2 more in the full Character Web
Open in readerNarrative arc
Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
The emotional peak occurs when the narrator, after witnessing the destruction of sacred and historic Kremlin s…
Full beat labels and climax notes unlock in the reader.
Follow the arc while readingIn the story
Nikolai Kishkin appears across 7 companion beats. Open any chapter in the free preview to see the notes beside the text.
- III: On the Eve
- Appendix to Chapter IV
- Events of November 7th
- Appendix to Chapter VI
- Appeals and Denunciations
- Appendix to Chapter VIII
- Proclamations of the Military Revolutionary Committee
Chapter companion notes
Spoil-light check-ins for Nikolai Kishkin unlock in the free preview.
See Nikolai Kishkin in i background