# Nikolai Kishkin — Ten Days That Shook the World character guide

> Nikolai Kishkin in Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Kishkin

**First appearance:** 0011-i-background

## Who they are

Minister of State Welfare in the Provisional Government.

## In the story

### [III: On the Eve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/iii-on-the-eve)

Appointed Special Commissar to keep order in Petrograd, assisted by Rutenburg and Paltchinsky.

### [Appendix to Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/appendix-to-chapter-iv)

Invested with extraordinary powers by the Provisional Government to restore order in Petrograd; relieves Polkovnikov and attempts to coordinate defense.

### [Events of November 7th](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/1-events-of-november-7th)

Invested with extraordinary powers by the Provisional Government to restore order in Petrograd.

### [Appendix to Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/appendix-to-chapter-vi)

Listed alongside Kornilov as someone whose place is in Peter-Paul prison.

### [Appeals and Denunciations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/1-appeals-and-denunciations)

Listed alongside Kornilov as someone who belongs in Peter-Paul prison.

### [Appendix to Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/appendix-to-chapter-viii)

Accused by the Bolsheviks of wanting to surrender the capital to the Germans after Kerensky fled.

### [Proclamations of the Military Revolutionary Committee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/2-proclamations-of-the-military-revolutionary-committee)

Mentioned as the one to whom Kerensky abandoned authority, accused of wanting to surrender the capital to the Germans.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/kishkin
- Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se
- All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters