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Charles Dubreuil

Best known for a vivid firsthand account of revolutionary-era Ukraine, this French author wrote from direct experience rather than a distant historian’s view. His work captures the uncertainty, political upheaval, and human detail of 1917–1919 with unusual immediacy.

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Deux années en Ukraine (1917-1919) avec une carte de l'Ukraine.

Deux années en Ukraine (1917-1919) avec une carte de l'Ukraine.

by Charles Dubreuil

About the author

Charles Dubreuil is known for Deux années en Ukraine (1917-1919), a French-language historical narrative first published in Paris in 1919. The book is presented as a firsthand account of his time in Kiev and of the dramatic changes unfolding in Ukraine during the First World War and the Russian Revolution.

Modern catalog and library sources available here confirm Dubreuil as the author of that work, but they offer very little verified biographical detail beyond the book itself. Based on the text and its catalog record, he appears above all as an eyewitness writer whose importance comes from what he saw and recorded during a crucial moment in Ukrainian history.

Because reliable public sources in this search did not provide a confirmed portrait or fuller life history, many personal details about Dubreuil remain unclear. What does stand out is the lasting interest in his book, which continues to be preserved and republished as a firsthand document of a turbulent period.