{{Infobox officeholder | name = Nikolai Kishkin | native_name = {{nobold|Николай Кишкин}} | native_name_lang = ru | image = Kishkin n m.jpg | image_size = | caption = Kishkin in 1914 | office = Minister of State Charities | term_start = 8 October | term_end = 8 November 1917 | prime_minister = [[Alexander Kerensky]] | predecessor = Ivan Yefremov | successor = [[Alexandra Kollontai]]<br>(as people's commissar) | alma_mater = [[Imperial Moscow University]] | party = [[Constitutional Democrat Party|Constitutional Democrat]] | birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|11 December|1864|29 November}} | birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|03|16|1864|12|11|df=y}} | death_place = Moscow, [[RSFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] }} '''Nikolai Mikhaylovich Kishkin''' ({{langx|ru|Николай Михайлович Кишкин}}; 11 December 1864 – 16 March 1930) was a [[physician]] and a [[Russian people|Russian]] politician on the Central Committee of the [[Constitutional Democrat Party]] (Kadets).<ref name="GSE">{{cite web |title=Nikolai Kishkin |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Nikolai+Kishkin |website=TheFreeDictionary.com |publisher=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition |access-date=23 May 2019}}</ref> During [[World War I]], he was Deputy Chief Representative of the All Russia [[Union of Cities]].<ref name="GSE"/> Following the [[February Revolution]] of 1917 he became a [[commissar]] of the [[Russian Provisional Government|Provisional Government]] in Moscow, being appointed [[Minister of Public Charities]] in the [[Alexander Kerensky|Kerensky]] government on 25 September ([[Old Style and New Style dates|N.S.]]: 8 October) that year.<ref name="GSE"/>
On 25 October, whilst the [[October Revolution|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 [[Georgy Polkovnikov|Polkovnikov]] as commander of the [[Petersburg Military District (Russian Empire)|Petrograd Military District]], with General [[Jaques Bagratuni]]. The principal consequence of this was that a number of Polkovnikov colleagues immediately resigned or quietly watched events unfold from their windows.<ref name="BCP">{{cite book |last1=Rabinowitch |first1=Alexander |title=The Bolsheviks Come to Power |date=1976 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |location=New York}}</ref>{{rp|288}}
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