Donat Andreevich Cherepanov (1886; disappeared March 1920) was a Russian revolutionary. He joined the Socialist-Revolutionaries around the time of the Russian revolutions of 1917, and emerged as a leading dissident in the Left-Socialist Revolutionary movement. He is believed to have died in captivity after being arrested in 1920.

Biography

Donat Andreevich Cherepanov was the son of an unsuccessful Moscow entrepreneur. According an account by his former classmate V.F. Khodasevich, Cherepanov did not appear to be involved in politics as of late 1916. He became politically active in 1917, joining the

Socialist Revolutionary Party The Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR; ,, ) was a major socialist political party in the late Russian Empire, during both phases of the Russian Revolution, and in early Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia. The party memb ...

, and later the same year siding with the

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries The Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries-Internationalists () was a revolutionary socialist political party formed during the Russian Revolution. In 1917, the Socialist Revolutionary Party split between those who supported the Russian Pro ...

in the party split. He gained some fame as a Left SR leader, along with such figures as Spiridonova and Kamkov. Cherepanov became a member of the Central Committee of the Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. He took a direct part in the

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of July 1918. After the failure of the attempted insurrection, he went underground and became the leader of the so-called 'left-wing of Left SRs' who advocated an irreconcilable terrorist struggle against the Bolsheviks. His underground nickname was 'Cherepok'. He established contacts with a group of underground anarchists led by Kazimir Kovalevich, and together they organized an explosion in Leontyevsky Lane on 25 September 1919.

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and 11 others were killed in this attack. Cherepanov was expelled from PLSR(i) in September 1919. Cherepanov was arrested by the Moscow Cheka on 20 February 1920. Cherepanov was personally interrogated by the leaders of the Cheka,

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and

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. Cherepanov was thought to have been executed shortly after his capture, but it is possible he died of

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In media

* portrayed Cherepanov in the 1968 film '' The Sixth of July''.

References

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