Simon Petlyura

Simon Petlyura is an outstanding political figure and a great leader of the Ukrainian national Liberation movement. He was born in the suburbs of Poltava on the 10th of May 1879. His family was rather rich.
From 1895 till 1901 he studied at the seminary in Poltava. In 1900 he joined the Ukrainian Revolutionary party. He worked as a teacher for some years. He lived in many cities of Russia and Ukraine. During the First World War Petlyura wrote many political articles, but the most famous of them was ‘The War and the Ukrainians’. In 1919 Simon Petlyura became at the head of the Ukrainian Army, which struggled against Bolshevik regime. In this year he captured Kiev, and tried to build a powerful Ukrainian state. In 19 Simon Petlyura went to Austria and a bit later – to Hungary and Switzerland. In October 194 he came to Paris where he began to publish his own political magazine ‘Trident’ and continued to be the chairman of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. On the 5th of May 1926 he was shot by Bolshevik agent Shwartebart. Petlyura’s body was buried at the cemetery (Montparnas) in Paris.