Nestor Ivanovych Makhno (Ukrainian: Не́стор Івáнович Махно́; 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1888 – July 25, 1934), commonly known as Bat’ko Makhno (Ukrainian: батько Махно; ˈbɑtʲko mɐxˈnɔ, “Father Makhno”), was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of an independent anarchist army in Ukraine from 1917–21.