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(Milliyet Newspaper, 17 November 2019)
Volodimir Vasiyeviç Murskiy
Turkey played an important role vis-a-vis the government-in-exile of
the Ukraine Peoples Republic (UPR) that lasted from 1920 to 1991.
Volodimir Vasilyeviç Murskiy was the republic's representative in
Turkey from 1929 to his death in 1935 and while in Turkey Murskiy
gave Atatürk his books to read.
Murskiy was a politician, sociologist, statesman, diplomat, publisher
and teacher, who spent the very eventful last years of his short life in
Istanbul. When the Bolsheviks occupied Ukraine, UPR officials fled
first to Czechoslovakia and then to Poland. In 1929, Murskiy came
to Istanbul as the UPR's representative but died at the age of 47 from
an inoperable 'brain tumor' on 19 May 1935.
Murskiy's death certificate.
Found at Murskiy's grave in Istanbul was a death report that gave
'brain tumor' as the cause of death but a Ukrainian historian, who
would not give his name, asserted that "Murskiy died at the very
young age of 47. At that time the Soviet KGB and GPU were very
active in Istanbul and those organizations had laboratories where
they manufactured poisons and viruses. Murskiy's predecessor in
Istanbul, Oleksandr Adiyeseviç, also died young from 'cancer', as
did the UPR's number two man in Istanbul, Denis Hvila. In addition,
Murskiy's assistant Mykola Zabello and his wife Kateryna also died
of 'cancer'. These cannot all be coincidences." (!)
//Ed. note: Old habits died hard://
After Murskiy's death, his family returned to Ukraine but another
UPR representative was not sent to Istanbul. Nevertheless, the UPR-
in-exile continued until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, when
its president, Mykola Plaviuk, turned over all his authorities to the
new Ukraine's President Leonid Kravchuk. In 1996, all the UPR's
documents from 73 years in exile were brought to Kiev from Canada
and placed in the Ukrainian archives.
Written in Turkish, "Ukraine and Its Independence
Struggles", was followed by Murskiy's second book
"The New Russia's Inner Face" in 1932. Murskiy
gave copies of both books to Atatürk.
Murskiy had been the chief for anti-Soviet propaganda in Ukraine
and he organized the flight of more than 80 opposition politicians
and their families to Istanbul when the Bolsheviks occupied Ukraine.
However, Istanbul had become a focal point for the Soviet intelligence
service GPU, which began operations against the Ukrainian political
leaders and against Murskiy, in particular.
Murskiy's grave at the Feriköy French
Catholic Cemetery was found in this
sad state in 2018...
In 2018, Aliya Usenova, a member of the Ukraine Culture Association,
found Murskiy's grave at the French Catholic Cemetery in Feriköy,
Istanbul. At the beginning of this year, Ukrainian officials came from
Kiev for a ceremony to mark the restoration of Murskiy's final resting
place. Usenova explained that "everyone was looking for Murskiy's
grave in the Armenian cemetery in Mecidiyköy (Istanbul) but in 2018
I found it in terrible condition in Feriköy. The Ukrainian government
sent some money and we were able to have his grave restored."
...and then restored in 2019. It's become a pilgrimage point
for Istanbul's Ukrainians and visitors from the home country.
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