Stanisław Szeptycki

Stanisław Maria Jan Teofil Szeptycki[1] (3 November 1867 – 9 October 1950) was a Polish count, general and military commander.

Born in 1867 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary to the aristocratic Szeptycki family, he was the grandson of Polish playwright Aleksander Fredro, son of the count Jan Kanty Szeptycki and brother of Andrey Sheptytsky, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Stanisław was a Catholic of the Latin rite, his brother Andrey/Andrzej was also initially of the Latin Rite, but instead followed Greek Catholicism).

Until February 1918 he was Austro-Hungarian governor general of Lublin, but resigned in protest when Germany turned Chełm and the surrounding area over to the Ukrainians.

During the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921, Szeptycki commanded the Polish Northeast Front and the 4th Army.

After World War II, from 1945 to 1950, he headed the Polish Red Cross (Polski Czerwony Krzyż).

Szeptycki serving as a military attaché in Russian Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War (1904/5)