# Pyotr Palchinsky — Ten Days That Shook the World character guide

> Pyotr Palchinsky in Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Paltchinsky

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

## Who they are

Engineer and member of the Provisional Government's economic council.

## In the story

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

Present at the Staff Headquarters meeting when soldiers demand surrender; later retreats to the Winter Palace.

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

Denounced by the Bolsheviks as a saboteur of the Municipal Food Supply.

### [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)

Cited as a hated figure in the former government, associated with sabotage of the Municipal Food Supply.

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