Andriy Livytskyi
Andriy Livytskyi | |
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Андрій Лівицький | |
Vyacheslav Prokopovych | |
Succeeded by | Pylyp Pylypchuk |
Personal details | |
Born | Krasnyi Kut, near Liplyave, Poltava Governorate | 9 April 1879
Died | 17 January 1954 Karlsruhe, West Germany | (aged 74)
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Spouse | Mariya Livytska[1] |
Children | Natalia and Mykola |
Andriy Mykolaiovych Livytskyi (Ukrainian: Андрій Миколайович Лівицький; 9 April 1879[2] – 17 January 1954[3]) was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, statesman, and lawyer.
He was president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1948–1954) and the Chairman of the Directory prior to reforming that office into the presidential.
Biography
ndriy Livytskyi was born on 9 April 1879 in Lyplyavo (at the time part of the Russian Empire) into an old Cossack family.[4] He finished the Gymnasium of Pavlo Halahana in Kyiv, and later went on to study at the mathematical and juridical faculties of the St. Volodymyr Kyiv University in 1896.[5] In 1897 and 1899 he was held in the Lukyanivska Prison in Kyiv for participation in protests.[6] He was expelled from the university and exiled to Poltava Governorate under the secret surveillance of police for taking part in the student's strike of 1899.[7] After obtaining his university diploma in 1903, he served in the Lubny Circuit Court,[8] and then, since 1905, he was a barrister of the Kharkiv Court Chamber, and in 1913–1917 an elected judge of Zolotonosha uezd in the Poltava Governorate.[9] In his studential years, he took part in the Ukrainian independence movement, heading one of the organization's bases in Kyiv.
From 1901, he belonged to the
Since October 1919, he was in the Ukrainian delegation to Warsaw, where he was working on the formation of the Ukrainian-Polish agreement, which was signed in 1920. After the defeat of the Ukrainian national movement for independence, he was forced to emigrate. From 1920 to 1948, he served as the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) in exile. After Symon Petliura's assassination, he became the head of the Directorate of Ukraine and assumed the post of the Chief Otaman of the Ukrainian People's Republic Army in exile in 1926.
Since that time to the time of his death, Livytskyi served as the head of state for the government of the UPR. He lived in Warsaw under constant watch of the
He died on 17 January 1954 in Karlsruhe, West Germany, and was later buried in the Waldfriedhof Cemetery in Munich and later his ashes were transferred to Ukrainian Memorial Cemetery in Bound Brook in the vicinity of New York City, United States.[3]
References
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