Oleksander Shulhyn

Who is Oleksander Shulhyn?

Oleksander Shulhyn was a prominent political, public, scientific and cultural figure of Ukraine and the Ukrainian government in exile better known under his French transcription Alexandre Choulguine. He is a nephew of the Russian writer Vasily Shulgin.

Shulhyn played a key role in establishing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, a professor of the Ukrainian Free University in Prague, a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and a representative of Ukrainians in International Refugee Organization after World War II. During the World War II Shulhyn acted as a head of Ukrainian government in exile.