Nikolai Krestinsky

Nikolay Krestinsky
Responsible Secretary of the Russian Communist Party
In office December 1919 – March 1921
Preceded by	Elena Stasova (as Chairman of the Secretariat)
Succeeded by	Vyacheslav Molotov
People's Commissar for Finance of the Russian SFSR
In office 16 August 1918 – 22 November 1922
Premier	Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by	Isidore Gukovsky
Succeeded by	Grigory Sokolnikov
Full member of the 8th, 9th Politburo
In office 8 March 1919 – 16 March 1921
Full member of the 8th, 9th Secretariat
In office 8 March 1919 – 16 March 1921
Personal details
Born	13 October 1883 Mogilev, Russian Empire (present day Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus)
Died	15 March 1938(1938-03-15) (aged 54) Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Political party	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University

Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Крести́нский; 13 October 1883 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician. Like most Old Bolsheviks, he did not survive the Great Purge.

Krestinsky was born in the town of Mogilev, in what is now Mahilyow Voblast of Belarus. According to Russian archivist A. B. Roginsky, Krestinsky was of ethnic Russian origin. Other sources suggest ethnic Ukrainian origins, while according to Felix Chuev, Vyacheslav Molotov maintained that Krestinsky's family had converted from Judaism to Eastern Orthodoxy.

Krestinsky joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1903 and sided with its Bolshevik faction. After the February Revolution, which overthrew monarchy in Russia, he proved to be a capable organizer and was elected to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party on 3 August 1917 (Old Style). He was made a member of the first Soviet Orgburo on 16 January 1919 and the first Politburo on 25 March 1919. He was also made a member of the Central Committee Secretariat on 29 November 1919 and served as the party's Responsible Secretary for the next year and a half.

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