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The memoirs describe the final days, in the Fall of 1917, of the Supreme Commander's Headquarters and his own subsequent mission to the Ukrainian government in Kiev on behalf of the Cossacks, especially the Don Cossacks.
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Manuscript: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1966.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Manuscript Accessioned 1966.
Manuscript Processed 08/--/81.
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Shapkin was a Don Cossack leader who was elected in 1917 to the post of "commissar" of the whole Cossack Host at the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander in Chief.
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