Jan Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski ( Іван-Степан-Марія Токарже́вський-Караше́вич) (24 June 1885 - 18 November 1954) was a Ukrainian diplomat and heraldry historian.

Born into a noble family in a village of Chabanivka near Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamianets-Podilskyi

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, he was educated at a gymnasium in Zhitomir, and graduated from the University of Fribourg

University of Fribourg

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 before World War I

World War I

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In 1918-1924, he served as a Ukrainian diplomat in Vienna

Vienna

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 (1918), Constantinople

Constantinople

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 (Ukrainian ambassador in 1920), Rome

Rome

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, and Tarnov

Tarnów

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 (Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic

Ukrainian People's Republic

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 in exile). In the period of 1924-1936, he lived in France, where he was a member of the France-East Committee, and an editor of the La France et l'Ukraine bulletin. Then he lived in Italy (1936–1948), and in England (1948–1954), where he was a Ukrainian representative of Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations

Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations

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. He was buried in a cemetery in Gunnersbury

Gunnersbury

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, a place in the London Borough of Hounslow

London Borough of Hounslow

-Political composition:Since the borough was formed it has been controlled by the Labour Party on all but two occasions. In 1968 the Conservatives formed a majority for the first and last time to date until they lost control to Labour in 1971. Labour subsequently lost control of the council in the...

, in 1954, and finally his relics were transferred to a pantheon of Ukrainian historical figures at South Bound Brook, New Jersey

South Bound Brook, New Jersey

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 in 1978.

He was the cousin of general Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski.