Spiridon Merkulov

Spiridon Dionisevich Merkulov, 1870 to 1957, was a Russian politician of the White movement during the Russian Civil War who led the Provisional Priamurye Government in the Far East, chairing it from May 26, 1921, to July 23, 1922, after taking power in a coup in Primorye. Born in Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, his administration was itself overthrown by a military dictatorship in the summer of 1922, after which he emigrated to San Francisco, California, where he lived until his death in 1957.