11 Facts About Andriy Livytskyi

Andriy Mykolaiovych Livytskyi was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, statesman, and lawyer.

Andriy Livytskyi was president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile and the Chairman of the Directory prior to reforming that office into the presidential.

Andriy Livytskyi was born on 9 April 1879 in Lyplyavo into an old Cossack family.

Andriy Livytskyi 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.

Andriy Livytskyi 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.

Andriy Livytskyi was jailed in connections to the revolutionary activities of 1906 and after escaping was imprisoned again in 1907.

Since 1917, Livytskyi was a member of the Central Rada and the Peasant Union.

Andriy Livytskyi held positions as the Minister of Justice and the deputy of the Rada of National Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919, as well as the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the government of Isaak Mazepa in 1919.

Since that time to the time of his death, Andriy Livytskyi served as the head of state for the government of the UPR.

Andriy Livytskyi lived in Warsaw under constant watch of the Polish police.

Andriy Livytskyi 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.