14 Facts About Isaak Mazepa

Isaak Prokhorovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian politician.

Isaak Mazepa was a Head of the Government of Ukrainian People's Republic from August 1919 to May 1920, and one of the central figures of the 1917 Ukrainian revolution.

Isaak Mazepa was born on 16 August 1884 in Kostobobriv village, Chernihiv province, Russian Empire.

Isaak Mazepa's father, Prokhor Mazepa, was a burgher of Cossack origin.

Isaak Mazepa send his son to study at the Novgorod-Siversky Bursa, and later at the Chernihiv Theological Seminary, where Mazepa first got acquainted with the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and received a reputation of a Social Democrat.

However Mazepa did not want to become a priest and began to prepare for admission to the Faculty of Natural Sciences of St Petersburg University.

From 1905, Isaak Mazepa was a member of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, and from 1906 a member of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party.

In 1915, Isaak Mazepa moved to Katerynoslav working in the provincial food committee.

In January 1919, Isaak Mazepa was a deputy of the Labor Congress of Ukraine, and from April 1919 he was the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic in the government of Borys Martos.

From August 27,1919, to May 25,1920, Isaak Mazepa was a Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

From 1920 Isaak Mazepa lived in exile in Lviv, where he edited the USDRP newspaper The Free Ukraine and the magazine Socialist Thought.

Isaak Mazepa defended Ukrainian interests at many social democratic conferences, was a member of the executive committee of the Labour and Socialist Internationals.

In 1950 Isaak Mazepa became the founder of the Ukrainian Socialist Party.

Isaak Mazepa died on 18 March 1952 in Augsburg, Germany.