10 Facts About Danylo Terpylo

Danylo Ilovych Terpylo was born on December 28,1886, in Trypillia, where he was educated first by the church-parish school and then at a Zemstvo school.

Danylo Terpylo was first arrested in 1907 and stayed in prison for three months.

Danylo Terpylo was arrested a second time on September 22,1908, for anti-government activity, and sent to the Arkhangelsk Oblast for three years.

However, once victorious, Petliura ordered Danylo Terpylo to dissolve his division.

In Trypillia, at the peasant Cossack congress, Danylo Terpylo stated that his aspirations were at odds with the Directory's policy and he was confronting it.

Danylo Terpylo formed part of the underground All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee and became the military commissioner of the Revolutionary War.

In Pereyaslav, on July 15,1919, in the presence of the local people and his army, Danylo Terpylo cancelled the Pereyaslav Agreement for "reunification" with Moscow.

Elias Heifetz estimates that Danylo Terpylo's troops killed about 2,000 people in 15 pogroms.

On September 17,1919, Danylo Terpylo arrived at Kamianets-Podilskyi with one of the detachments, he personally met with Symon Petliura.

Danylo Terpylo died on the way back to Trypillia, where he was buried along the bank of the river Donets.