The newspaper (which prior to that was coming out three times a week) became a daily; now it appealed to the liberals as well as the Russian nationalists and featured a fine literary section.
In September 1913 Vasily Shulgin became Kievlyanin's editor-in-chief, and the newspaper started to drift towards the so-called 'progressive nationalists' group led by Anatoly Savenko.
Shulgin made an attempt to move the publication to the Don region, but the White Army general Mikhail Alekseyev refused to support it.
[5] The Central Powers intervention prompted Shulgin to stop the publication in protest, even if the German occupational authorities asked him to continue.
And we won't give it back neither to the Ukrainian traitors, nor to the Jewish hangmen who drowned the city streets with blood," Shulgin wrote on September 3.