[[File:Panin Viktor Nikitich2.jpg|thumb| Panin Viktor Nikitich]]
{{short description|Russian politician}} [[Count]] '''Viktor Nikitich Panin''' ({{langx|ru|Ви́ктор Ники́тич Па́нин}}; 9 April (28 March [[Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe|Old Style]]) 1801 Moscow – 13 April (1 April [[Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe|Old Style]]) 1862 [[Nice]]) was [[conservatism|conservative]] Russian Minister of [[Justice]] (1841–1862). He was the younger son of Count [[Nikita Petrovich Panin]] by Countess Sofia Vladimirovna [[Orlov family|Orlov]]a.
His granddaughter, [[Sofia Panina]] was a philanthropist who became active in the [[Constitutional Democratic Party]] following the [[February Revolution]]. She was subjected to a [[political trial]] following the [[Bolshevik]] seizure of power in the [[October Revolution]].
==External links== * https://web.archive.org/web/20050430073212/http://hp.iitp.ru/eng/42/4258.htm
{{s-start}} {{succession box | before = Dmitry Bludov | title = [[Minister of Justice]] | years = 1841 – 1862 | after = Dmitry Zamyatin}} {{s-end}}
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