Shary-Bogunsky, Anton Savvovich

Anton Shary-Bogunsky belonged to the Pereyaslav-Zolotonosha branch of the ancient Zaporizhzhya Cossack family Sharykh. According to the surviving family tradition, Sharya or Sharenko originate from one of the Polish-Lithuanian knights who fought with the Tatars in the 14th century. For the Polish origin of the surname, it also says that “szary” (“shary”) is translated from Polish as “gray”. Although the same word Zaporozhye Cossacks called horse suit (sharaya).

Born into a peasant family. He graduated from the church-teacher school . Then he moved to Kiev, sailed as a sailor on the ship "Chernigov", at the same time he studied at the Kiev River School. I passed exams for the gymnasium course as an external student and entered the Kiev Commercial Institute.

In early 1917 , Shary A.S. enlisted in the Russian army as volunteers . Member of the First World War.

In May 1917 he joined the Bolshevik Party and became its active functionary. Since April 1918 - member of the CP (b) U.

In 1917 - 1918 he fought against the armed groups of the UPR . He was appointed managing director of the Ukrainian Soviet Government - the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (WUCIC) .

In April 1918, as a representative of the Cherkasy Committee of the Kiev provincial party organization, Shary A.S. participated in Taganrog in a meeting of the Bolsheviks who had retreated from Ukraine on organizing an uprising against the Austro-German occupiers and their allies.

Since May 1918, on the instructions of the " Insurgent Nine, " he was at an underground job in Zolotonoshsky Uyezd. In the summer of that year, A. S. Bogunsky was one of the leaders of the uprising of the Ukrainian peasantry against the Austro-German troops. He organized an armed detachment and led into the "neutral zone" about 600 rebels, who later formed the basis of the 1st Ukrainian Soviet Division of the 1st Ukrainian Soviet Army .

In November 1918 he was again sent to clandestine work in the Poltava province. In January 1919 , he united and led the Zolotonosha rebel detachments, which fought against the Petlyura troops and interventionists.

At the beginning of 1919 he took the pseudonym Bogunsky in memory of Ivan Bogun , the legendary Zaporozhye colonel, associate of B. Khmelnitsky and the hero of the Cossack liberation war against the Poles. In March 1919, he was appointed brigade commander of the Special Dnieper Brigade of the Ukrainian Front . According to the conclusion of the Higher Military Inspectorate of Ukraine, the brigade led by A.S. Sharym-Bogunsky, which numbered more than 5,000 bayonets and had its own armored train , successfully fought with the whites in central Ukraine, was distinguished by its fighting spirit, but had a distinct Ukrainian national color.

At the beginning of 1919, which had already become legendary among the people of Left-Bank Ukraine, the young red military commander Anton Shary-Bogunsky spoke from the position of the Ukrainian National Communists against the policy of the Bolshevik government of H. G. Rakovsky . In April 1919, he signed the appeal “To the Peasants and Workers of Ukraine” of the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee created in Squire , which later organized the Rebel Council and the General Staff of the Rebel Forces of Ukraine, presenting an ultimatum to the Ukrainian government.

The appeal, in particular, said:

These gentlemen called themselves "communists" and began to rob the poor population of Ukraine and export everything with speculative purposes to Russia. Thus, we were under the heel of various commissioners sent to us, who behave even worse with us than the royal bailiffs. Finally, popular patience broke off and an uprising began. The uprising was led by the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee (Revkom) and the Main Military Revolutionary Headquarters ... We are trying to achieve the following: Ukraine must be nationally-culturally and economically independent. As for the federation, it should be voluntary, that is, without any coercion and oppression by other nations ... All local power belongs to the workers 'and peasants' councils, and in the center the Council of Soviets without any party dictatorship ... For us there is no party, but there is the class interests of the peasantry and workers ... The power in Ukraine should consist of local people, that is, Ukrainians (all living in Ukraine), we do not need occupiers and profiteers on communism ... Soviet Russia should help us, but by our consent and without interference in our own affairs ... No one should impose communes by force ... No one has the right to mock the faith of the people ...

- “Notes on the Civil War” by the former commander of the Ukrainian Front V. Antonov-Ovseenko .

Some parts of his Dnieper brigade opposed the Bolsheviks, took part in the uprising of N. Grigoriev . ^[one]

A. S. Sharyy-Bogunsky was arrested and in July 1919, at the personal order of Trotsky ^[2], shot the Cheka "for desertion from the front."

The shooting of the brigade commander beloved by the fighters caused a spontaneous uprising against the Soviet power in one of the regiments of his brigade, which removed from combat positions and moved to Poltava and Kremenchug, destroying all prisons and departments of the Cheka on the way. After some time, the rebel regiment of Lopatkin was destroyed by the Bolshevik troops.

In order to make oblivion in the people's memory the name of the brigade commander Shary-Bogunsky, the Soviet leaders created the legendary image of another participant in the Civil War in Ukraine, Nikolai Schors , to whom his merits were transferred.

By a resolution of the KGB of the USSR of April 29, 1990, the criminal case against A. S. Sharogo was terminated due to the lack of corpus delicti.

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