Jan Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski

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

Born into a noble family in the village Chabanivka near Kamianets-Podilskyi, he was educated at a gymnasium in Zhytomyr, and graduated from the University of Fribourg before World War I.

From 1918 to 1924, he served as a Ukrainian diplomat in Vienna (1918), Constantinople (Ukrainian amb*ador in 1920), Rome, and Tarnov (Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile). From 1924 to 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. He was buried in a cemetery in Gunnersbury, a place in the London Borough of Hounslow, in 1954, and finally his relics were transferred to a pantheon of Ukrainian historical figures at South Bound Brook, New Jersey in 1978.

He was the cousin of general Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski. Tokarzhevsky was married to Oksana Lototsky, a daughter of another diplomat Oleksander Lototsky.