Yevhen Petrovych Terletskyi
Born March 1 (13), 1892 Died October 22, 1938 Occupation Politician
Yevhen Petrovych Terletskyi (Ukrainian : Євген Петрович Терлецький ) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, member of the Russian Constituent Assembly , People Commissar (narkom) of Justice, diplomat.
Terletskyi was born in a village of Lozovyi Yar (near Yahotyn ) 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 . He was an active participant of revolutionary events of 1917 as a member of the Petrograd Soviet and a chairman of the Poltava soviet as a member of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries . Terletskyi was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly from Poltava Governorate as a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries .
With the establishment of People's Secretariat , 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 and later assassination of German field marshal Hermann von Eichhorn .
Terletskyi was one of founders of the Ukrainian party of left socialist-revolutionaries Borbysts (not to be confused with Borotbists ).
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