Korostovets, Volodymyr

Korostovets, Volodymyr [Коростовець, Володимир; Korostovec'], b 16 July 1888 in Peresazh, Chernihiv county, Chernihiv gubernia, d 29 September 1953 in London. Journalist and political figure. He completed his higher education at Kyiv University and Saint Petersburg University with a doctorate in political science and international law. From 1912 to 1917 he served in the diplomatic corps of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When the Bolsheviks came to power, he emigrated to Poland and then (1925) to Germany, where he was active in the Hetmanite movement and served as curator of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin. Moving to London in 1932, he published The Investigator (1932–4), in which he argued that an independent Ukraine was necessary for the achievement of peace in Eastern Europe. From 1949 he sat on the presidium of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain. Besides articles in the British and American periodical press, his publications include The Re-birth of Poland (1928), Quo Vadis Polonia? (1929), Graf Witte, der Steuermann in der Not (1929), and Europe in the Melting Pot (1938).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]