Nikolai Mikhailovich Kishkin

Nikolai Michailowitsch Kischkin (1914)

Nikolai Mikhailovich Kishkin ( Russian Николай Михайлович Кишкин ; born November 29 ^{. Jul} / 11. December  1864 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 16th March 1930 ) was a Russian physician and politician .

Life

Kischkin came from a noble family . He graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University, and then worked as a doctor and physiotherapist . He became director and co-owner of the hydrotherapy and electrotherapy clinic in Moscow. He was a member of the Society for the Promotion of the Development of Health Resorts .

Kishkin was a member of the Liberal Union of Liberation . In the year of the Russian Revolution in 1905 he became a member of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party ( Cadets ), in which he leaned towards the left wing. He was an elected member of the Moscow City Duma from 1905 to 1908 and 1913 to 1917, and in 1914 he was deputy chief plenipotentiary and member of the main committee of the All-Russian Union of Cities.

During the February 1917 Revolution , Kishkin headed the Executive Committee elected by the Moscow Social Organizations Committee. In March 1917, the Provisional Government in Petrograd made him its commissioner in Moscow. He was now preparing the local elections in the summer of 1917. In July and August 1917, Prime Minister Alexander Fyodorowitsch Kerensky suggested to Kishkin, whom he knew, that he should join the government. After Lavr Georgievich Kornilov's failed coup attempt in August, Kishkin held talks with representatives of trade and industry about joining the government on behalf of Kerensky. On September 25th ^Jul. / October 8, 1917 ^greg. Kishkin became Minister of Supply in the last Cabinet of the Provisional Government. On the day of the October Revolution , Kishkin received full military and civil power in Petrograd. It replaced the indecisive commander in chief of the Petrograd armed forces Colonel Georgi Petrovich Polkovnikov by Major General Prince Yakov Gerassimowitsch Bagratuni and attempted a defense against the Bolsheviks establish what failed because of insufficient military forces. After taking the Winter Palace , the defense of which he had entrusted his assistant Pyotr Ioakimowitsch Palchinsky , with the ministers of the Provisional Government, Kishkin was arrested by the Bolsheviks and taken to the Peter and Paul Fortress . In the spring of 1918, Kishkin was released.  

Kischkin was now working as a doctor again. In 1919 he was arrested as one of the founders of the opposition Union for the Liberation of Russia for anti- Soviet activities, but was soon released. In 1921, together with Sergei Nikolajewitsch Prokopowitsch and Yekaterina Dmitrijewna Kuskowa, to alleviate the famine, he organized the All-Russian Committee for Famine Relief , which was joined by well-known liberal personalities and which was therefore viewed critically by the Soviet authorities. Kishkin was arrested for anti-Soviet activity, exiled to Vologda and then given an amnesty . From 1923 he worked in Moscow in the spa department of the People's Commissariat for Health of the RSFSR . He was arrested several times. Eventually he retired . When the political situation worsened at the end of the 1920s, his pension was withdrawn and the food stamps refused.

Web links

• Catalog of the Russian National Library : Кишкин Николай Михайлович

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Большая российская энциклопедия: КИШКИ́Н Николай Михайлович (accessed October 16, 2019).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} State Duma : Кишкин Николай Михайлович (accessed October 16, 2019).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Chronos: Кишкин Николай Михайлович (accessed October 16, 2019).