Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko (Russian: Николай Васильевич Крыленко) (May 2, 1885, Bekhteevo (Бехтеево), Smolensk region, Russian Empire – July 29, 1938, Moscow) was a Bolshevik revolutionary an a Soviet politician. Krylenko served in a variety of posts in the Soviet legal system, rising to become Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.