Yevhen Petrovych Terletskyi ( uk, Євген Петрович Терлецький) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, member of the

Russian Constituent Assembly The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учредительное собрание, Vserossiyskoye Uchreditelnoye sobraniye) was a constituent assembly convened in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917. It met fo ...

, People Commissar (narkom) of Justice, diplomat. Terletskyi was born in a village of Lozovyi Yar (near

Yahotyn Yahotyn () is a city in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Yahotyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 2001, population was 23,659. The current population is Until 18 July 2020, Yahoty ...

) in a family of priest. He graduated Poltava Theological Seminary and later studied at a recently established Petrograd Psychoneurological Institute. In 1911 Terletskyi joined the

Socialist Revolutionary Party The Socialist Revolutionary Party, or the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries (the SRs, , or Esers, russian: эсеры, translit=esery, label=none; russian: Партия социалистов-революционеров, ), was a major politi ...

. He was an active participant of revolutionary events of 1917 as a member of the

Petrograd Soviet The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (russian: Петроградский совет рабочих и солдатских депутатов, ''Petrogradskiy soviet rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov'') was a city council of P ...

and a chairman of the Poltava soviet as a member of

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries The Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (russian: Партия левых социалистов-революционеров-интернационалистов) was a revolutionary socialist political party formed during the Russian Revol ...

. Terletskyi was elected to the

from

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 ...

as a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries. With the establishment of

People's Secretariat The People's Secretariat of Ukraine was the executive body of the Provisional Central Executive Committee of Soviets in Ukraine. It was formed in Kharkiv on December 30, 1917 as a form of the Soviet concept of dual power by the Russian and other ...

, in December 1917 Terletskyi was appointed as a people's secretary of land cultivation. In 1918 he was involved in negotiations of the

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Treaty of Brest in Russia) was a separate peace, separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Russian SFSR, Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Kingdom of ...

and later assassination of German field marshal Hermann von Eichhorn. Terletskyi was one of founders of the Ukrainian party of left socialist-revolutionaries

Borbysts Borbysts ( uk, Борьбисти) a brief name for the Ukrainian Party of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries (UPLSR). The exact date of establishment of the party is unknown, while its main newspaper "Trudovaya mysl" declared for its appearance f ...

(not to be confused with

Borotbists The Borotbists (Fighters) (1918–1920) was a left-nationalist political party in Ukraine. It is not be associated with its Russian affiliated counterparts - the Ukrainian Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (Borbysts) and the Ukrainian Commu ...

External links

* Doroshko, M.
Yevhen Terletskyi
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. {{DEFAULTSORT:Terletskyi, Yevhen 1892 births 1937 deaths People from Kyiv Oblast People from Poltava Governorate Left socialist-revolutionaries Russian Constituent Assembly members Great Purge victims from Ukraine Soviet rehabilitations