Simon Petliura

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Symon Petliura was born on May 10 1879 in Poltava . He studied at the Poltava Theological Seminary , from where he was expelled. In 1900, he joined the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP) . He held left-nationalist views . In 1902, he began his journalistic career at the Literary and Scientific Herald . The magazine was published in Lviv ( Austria-Hungary ), and its editor-in-chief was M. S. Hrushevsky . Petliura's first journalistic work was devoted to the state of public education in Poltava region .

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In 1902, fleeing arrest for revolutionary agitation, Petliura moved to Kuban [ 6 ] [ 7 ] , where he first gave private lessons in Yekaterinodar , and later worked as a research assistant in the expedition of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences F. A. Shcherbina , who was engaged in systematizing the archives of the Kuban Cossack Army and worked on the fundamental work "History of the Kuban Cossack Army" [ 8 ] . Petliura's work received a positive assessment from F. A. Shcherbina. Symon Petliura taught at the Yekaterinodar Primary City School, published in local magazines, and collaborated with the Lviv magazines “Good News” and “Labor.” Several of his works are known in local periodicals and collections of articles and research on the history of Kuban in the “Literary and Scientific Herald” . Among Petliura’s journalistic works there is an article about the famous Kuban historian, first secretary of the Kuban Statistical Committee, chairman of the Caucasian Archaeographic Commission E. D. Felitsyn , with whom Petliura was personally acquainted . Petliura stayed in Kuban for no more than two years. Continuing his revolutionary activities, he organized a RUP cell in Yekaterinodar — the Black Sea Free Community, and set up a secret printing house in his home to publish anti-government leaflets. This led to his arrest in December 1903. Only in March of the following year, on the basis of a fictitious certificate of illness, was he released on bail and kept under special police surveillance, and was later forced to leave Kuban] . Much later, in 1912, Petliura, having become the editor of the magazine “Ukrainian Life”, placed in it a number of publications about Kuban, the authors of which were both himself and the Kuban correspondents of the magazine.

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Simon [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] (Semyon) Vasyliovych Petliura ( Ukrainian: Simon (Semen) Vasyliovych (Vasiliyovych) Petliura , May 10 (22) , 1879 , Poltava , Russian Empire – May 25, 1926 , Paris , Third French Republic [ 4 ] ) was a Ukrainian military, political and statesman, chairman of the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919-1920. Chief Ataman of the Army and Navy of the UPR.

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