Yevgeny Frantsevich Rogovsky

Russian White movement Narodniks and Socialist Revolutionaries 1888–1950 ○ Died in exile

Socialist Revolutionary who headed Komuch's state guard, became the Directory's deputy interior minister and was arrested in the Omsk coup

Born at Saratov into a judge's family, he joined the SR combat organisation in 1905, became commissar of the Petrograd city administration in 1917 and was elected to the Constituent Assembly. In August 1918 he became chairman of Komuch's council of department heads and head of its state guard at Samara, and as deputy chairman of the Ufa State Conference he read out the act creating the supreme power. Appointed the Directory government's deputy interior minister in November, he was forming an SR militia to guard the Directory when he was arrested in the Omsk coup and deported. In Paris he worked in the SR group and against antisemitism, rescued Jews in Nice under the occupation, and died in Paris in 1950.

Also known as: Evgeny Rogovsky · Yevgeni Rogovsky