overrun by Bolshevik Red Guards in the winter of 1917-18. Briefly in early 1918 the bolsheviks split the governorate territories between the Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic and the Donetsk-Krivoi Rog Soviet Republic before being overrun by the forces of the Ukrainian People's Republic with military assistance from the German Empire. Notes References Further reading External links Map of Taurida (1882) Governorates of Ukraine Governorates of the Russian Empire Crimea in the Russian Empire States and territories established in 1802 1802 establishments in the Russian Empire