Symon Petlura (("Simon Petljura"); in English, also occasionally spelled "Simon Petliura" or "Petlyura"; May 10, 1879 - May 25, 1926) was a publicist, writer, journalist, Ukrainian politician and statesman, a leader of Ukraine's unsuccessful fight for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917. During the Russian Civil War, he was briefly Head of the Ukrainian State. In 1926 Petlura was assassinated in Paris. Wikipedia
In fact, 260 books with Petliura Library stamps identified in what is now the National Library of Belarus were transferred-or, as reported from Minsk, "returned"-to Kyiv in the late 1980s. www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/Odyssey.php
Court. In the dim court of Assizes, in Paris, during the past fortnight, more than 400 spectators saw the beginning and the end of one of the most gruesome, bloodcurdling, impassioned trials ever... www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,731176,00.html
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Symon Petliura. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symon_Petlura
