Shulgin. Caricature of Boris Efimov (died 2008)a Soviet political cartoonist. Vasily Vitalyevich Shulgin (1878  1976) was a Russian conservative monarchist, politician and member of the White movement. Together with Alexander Guchkov he persuaded Nicholas II to abdicate from the throne since he believed that a constitutional monarchy with Michael Alexandrovich being the monarch was possible.