Anatoly Savenko

Anatoly Ivanovich Savenko (Анатолий Иванович Савенко; 28 December 1874 in Pereyaslav, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire – 1922 in Kerch, Russian SSR) 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: Kievlyanin, Kievskoye slovo in the magazine Life and Art (as a staff member), in the newspapers Podolyanin, Svet, Moskovskiye Vedomosti, Novoye Vremya, 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 Provisional Committee of the State Duma and the Provisional Government. Deputy chairman of Russian voters, nonpartisan unit (1919).

One of the main ideologists of Russian nationalism. Critic and implacable political opponent of Ukrainian nationalism.

A member of the White movement in the South of Russia, Savenko became Head of the Kiev branch of OSVAG (an intelligence and propaganda arm of the White military) and actual head of Kiev in autumn 1919 after the Volunteer Army captured the city. He wrote the booklet Little Russians or Ukrainians? (1919), and founded the newspaper Kievan Rus (1919). Savenko emigrated 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 Kerch in 1922.