Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

In early 1918, Shapoval served briefly in the Ukrainian cabinet of Volodymyr Vynnychenko, as minister of post and telegraph of the Ukrainian National Republic. He was also general secretary and then head of the Ukrainian National Union (14 November 1918–January 1919). In November–December 1918, he was one of the members of the Ukrainian National Republic Directory that overthrew the Ukrainian State of Hetman P. P. Skoropadskii. He subsequently served as minister of agriculture in the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian National Republic (26 December 1918–5 February 1919). He then moved to Galicia, and in 1920 emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where he helped found the Ukrainian Economic Academy and engaged in research into the history of the revolution in Ukraine. Shapoval was publisher and editor of the journal Nova Ukraina (“New Ukraine”) and authored more than 60 published works, including collections of poetry. He died near Prague and is buried there. He is commemorated by a street in his hometown that bears his name.

Shapron diu Larre, Aleksei Genrikhovich (1883–10 June 1947). Colonel (July 1919), major general (9 March 1920). A close and trusted assistant of Generals M. V. Alekseev and A. I. Denikin in the White movement in South Russia, A. G. Shapron diu Larre, who was of French ancestry, was a graduate of the Simbirsk Cadet School and the Nicholas Cavalry School, following which he entered the Pavlovsk Life Guards Regiment and then His Majesty’s Kirasirsk Life Guards. Following numerous staff appointments, he ended the First World War as adjutant to General Alekseev (October 1917–September 1918).

Shapron diu Larre was an active agent of the Alekseev organization that opposed the October Revolution and traveled with Alekseev to the Don territory in November 1917 to help found the Volunteer Army. Alongside his mentor, he participated in both the First Kuban (Ice) March and the Second Kuban March. Following Alekseev’s death, he served as adjutant to General Denikin (September 1918–July 1919). Subsequently, as commander of the 2nd Volunteer Horse Regiment of the Drozdovtsy (July–December 1919), he was badly wounded at Chernigov. He then (again) served briefly on Denikin’s staff (January–March 1920), before emigrating, together with Denikin, from Feodosiia to Constantinople (4 April 1920). In emigration, he lived with his wife, Natal′ia Lavrovna (the daughter of General L. G. Kornilov) in Turkey, Britain, France, and finally, Belgium, where he is buried in the Ixelles (Elsene) cemetery.

Shatilov, Mikhail bonifat′evich (22/23 May 1882–8/12 December 1937). One of the leading figures of the Democratic Counter-Revolution in Siberia, the prolific author and ethnographer M. B. Shatilov was born at Tiukalinska, Tomsk guberniia, into a Siberian merchant’s family (descended from a Decembrist exile) and graduated from the Law Faculty of Tomsk University (1909). He became well known in Siberia as a lawyer, journalist, and advocate of Siberian regionalism, and before the First World War was frequently in trouble with the tsarist authorities. In 1917, like many oblastniki, he joined the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries, and was named assistant commissar for Tomsk guberniia by the Russian Provisional Government.

In January 1918, Shatilov was elected to the Siberian Regional Duma. During a secret meeting of its members on the night of 25–26 January 1918, he was named as a minister without portfolio in the Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia. He was briefly arrested and imprisoned by the Soviet authorities in the region when the Siberian Regional Duma was dispersed, but on 27 June 1918 he joined the Provisional Siberian Government as minister for native affairs. As a consequence of his continued and outspoken support for the Siberian Regional Duma, he was arrested by renegade officers of the Siberian Army (a prime example of samosud) and resigned his portfolio on 21–22 September 1918, during the Novoselov affair.