A Profile of the Ukranian Warlord
Ołeksandr Kozyr-Zirka and his Activities during the Rule
of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918–1919) Cover Image

Ołeksandr Kozyr-Zirka – sylwetka niezdyscyplinowanego atamana z okresu rządów Dyrektoriatu Ukraińskiej Republiki Ludowej (1918–1919)
A Profile of the Ukranian Warlord Ołeksandr Kozyr-Zirka and his Activities during the Rule of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918–1919)

Author(s): Marek Bogdan Kozubel
Subject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory, Military history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), History of Antisemitism
Published by: Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne im. gen. broni Kazimierza Sosnkowskiego
Keywords: Ukrainian People’s Republic; Ukrainian War of Independence; Russian Civil War; anti-Semitism; pogroms; war crimes

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to Oleksandr Kozyr-Zirka, one of the most famous atamans of the period of the Ukrainian national revolution 1917–1921. In November 1918, he joined the uprising against Hetman Paweł Skoropadski. After the overthrow of the Hetmanate, he became famous mainly for the robberies in the rear of Ukrainian Army and the pogroms in Owrucz at the turn of 1918 and 1919. His fate inspired Mikhail Bulgakov to create the character of the bloody ataman KozyrLashka, one of the side characters of the novel „The White Guard”.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 172-205
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: Polish