Donat Cherepanov

Donat Andreevich Cherepanov (1886; disappeared March 1920) was a Russian revolutionary. He joined the Socialist-Revolutionaries around the time of the Russian revolutions of 1917, and emerged as a leading dissident in the Left-Socialist Revolutionary movement. He is believed to have died in captivity after being arrested in 1920.

Biography Donat Andreevich Cherepanov was the son of an unsuccessful Moscow entrepreneur. According an account by his former classmate V.F. Khodasevich, Cherepanov did not appear to be involved in politics as of late 1916. He became politically active in 1917, joining the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and later the same year siding with the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries in the party split. He gained some fame as a Left SR leader, along with such figures as Spiridonova and Kamkov. Vladimir Zagorsky and 11 others were killed in this attack. Cherepanov was expelled from PLSR(i) in September 1919.

Cherepanov was arrested by the Moscow Cheka on 20 February 1920. Cherepanov was personally interrogated by the leaders of the Cheka, Feliks Dzerzhinsky and Ivan Ksenofontov. Cherepanov was thought to have been executed shortly after his capture, but it is possible he died of typhus.