Anatoly Ivanovich Savenko (russian: Савенко, Анатолий Иванович; 28 December 1874 in

Pereiaslav Pereiaslav ( uk, Перея́слав, translit=Pereiaslav, yi, פּרעיאַסלעוו, Periyoslov) is a historical city in the Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast (Oblast, province) of central Ukraine, located near the confluence of Alta River, Alta ...

Poltava Governorate The Poltava Governorate (russian: Полтавская губерния, Poltavskaya guberniya; ua, Полтавська Губернія, translit=Poltavska huberniia) or Poltavshchyna was a Governorate (Russia), gubernia (also called a provin ...

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

– 1922 in

Kerch Kerch ( uk, Керч; russian: Керчь, ; Old East Slavic: Кърчевъ; Ancient Greek: , ''Pantikápaion''; Medieval Greek: ''Bosporos''; crh, , ; tr, Kerç) is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of t ...

Russian SSR Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

) was a Russian nationalist, social and political activist, lawyer, writer, essayist and journalist. Author of numerous publications of a political and economic nature published in a number of newspapers: "Kievlyanin", "Kievskoye slovo" in the magazine "Life and Art" (as a staff member), in the newspapers "Podolyanin", "Svet", "

Moskovskiye Vedomosti ''Moskovskiye Vedomosti'' ( rus, Моско́вские ве́домости, p=mɐˈskofskʲɪje ˈvʲedəməsʲtʲɪ; ''Moscow News'') was Russia's largest newspaper by circulation before it was overtaken by Saint Petersburg dailies in the m ...

", "

Novoye Vremya ''The New Times'' (russian: Новое Время) is a Russian language magazine in Russia. The magazine was founded in 1943. The current version, established in 1988, is a liberal, independent Russian weekly news magazine, publishing for Russi ...

", "Odessa Leaf" and others. Founder and chairman of the Law and Order (1905-1906). Co-founder and deputy chairman (from 1912 onwards, chairman) of the Kiev Club of Russian Nationalists (1908-1918), a member of the All-Russian National Union (1912-1918) and its General Council (1912-1915). IV State Duma deputy in the nationalist faction and the moderate right (1912-1915). One of the organizers and leaders of the parliamentary faction of progressive nationalists (1915-1917). Commissar of the

Provisional Committee of the State Duma The Provisional Committee of the State Duma () was a special government body established on March 12, 1917 (27 February O.S.) by the Fourth State Duma deputies at the outbreak of the February Revolution in the same year. It was formed under th ...

and the

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. Deputy chairman of Russian voters, nonpartisan unit (1919). One of the main ideologists of

Russian nationalism Russian nationalism is a form of nationalism that promotes Russian cultural identity and unity. Russian nationalism first rose to prominence in the early 19th century, and from its origin in the Russian Empire, to its repression during early ...

. Critic and implacable political opponent of

Ukrainian nationalism Ukrainian nationalism refers to the promotion of the unity of Ukrainians as a people and it also refers to the promotion of the identity of Ukraine as a nation state. The nation building that arose as nationalism grew following the French Revol ...

. A member of the White movement in the South of Russia, Savenko became Head of the Kiev branch of (an intelligence and propaganda arm of the White military) and actual head of Kiev in autumn 1919 after the

Volunteer Army The Volunteer Army (russian: Добровольческая армия, translit=Dobrovolcheskaya armiya, abbreviated to russian: Добрармия, translit=Dobrarmiya) was a White Army active in South Russia during the Russian Civil War from ...

captured the city. He wrote the booklet "Little Russians or Ukrainians?" (1919), and founded the newspaper "Kievan Rus" (1919). Savenko

emigrated Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...

from Russia in 1920, but the following year he returned secretly to Soviet Russia, where he lived under a false name before his death in

in 1922.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Savenko, Anatoly 1874 births 1922 deaths People from Pereiaslav People from Poltava Governorate Russian nationalists People of the Russian Civil War Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Lawyers from the Russian Empire