Anatoly Ivanovich Savenko (; 28 December 1874 in Pereyaslav,

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– 1922 in

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) 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: ''

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'', ''Kievskoye slovo'' in the magazine ''Life and Art'' (as a staff member), in the newspapers ''Podolyanin'', ''Svet'', '' Moskovskiye Vedomosti'', ''

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'', ''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

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and the

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

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. Critic and implacable political opponent of

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. A member of the

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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

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

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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