The Kadet minister named special plenipotentiary to save Petrograd on the day of the October Revolution
At 4 pm on 25 October, the cabinet granted Kishkin plenipotentiary authority over all military and civil authorities in the capital. He at once dismissed Colonel Polkovnikov "for inaction" and appointed General Bagratuni commander of the Petrograd Military District.
A Moscow physician who rose to the Central Committee of the left-Kadet faction and served as deputy chief representative of the All-Russian Union of Cities during World War I. After the February Revolution he became commissar of the Provisional Government in Moscow, and in September 1917 joined its last cabinet as Minister of Public Charities. On the afternoon of 25 October he was granted special plenipotentiary powers to restore order in Petrograd, and immediately dismissed Colonel Polkovnikov as district commander, appointing General Bagratuni in his place; that night he was arrested with the rest of the cabinet in the Winter Palace by Antonov-Ovseenko. After the Civil War he returned to medicine, co-founded the All-Russian Famine Relief Committee with Prokopovich and Kuskova in 1921, and suffered repeated arrests and exile before his death in 1930.
Career Timeline
- 1905–1917.2Kadet Central Committee member, Moscow City Duma deputy, deputy chief of All-Russian Union of Cities
- 1917.3–9Commissar of the Provisional Government in Moscow
- 1917.9–10Minister of Public Charities, Provisional Government
- 1917.10.25Special plenipotentiary for order in Petrograd; dismisses Polkovnikov, appoints Bagratuni; arrested at Winter Palace
- 1918–21Released, returns to medicine; arrested in Tactical Centre case 1919, released
- 1921–23Co-founds All-Russian Famine Relief Committee (Pomgol); arrested, exiled to Vologda, amnestied
- 1923–30Works in resort department of Narkomzdrav; stripped of pension and ration cards; dies in Moscow 1930