Serhii Shelukhin
Serhii Shelukhin (pen name S. Pavlenko; 6 October 1864, Denhy village, Zolotonosha county, Poltava region, now Cherkasy region — 25 December 1938, Prague) was a Ukrainian lawyer, historian, diplomat, civic and political figure, writer and teacher. He came from a gentry family. He was a member of the Ukrainian Central Rada, General Judge of the Ukrainian People's Republic and Minister of Justice in the government of Vsevolod Holubovych. In June 1918 he headed the Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks with Soviet Russia, and in 1919 he was a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Paris peace talks. In emigration he lived in Vienna and then in Prague. He taught at the Drahomanov Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute (1924–1925). He chaired the Ukrainian Committee in Czechoslovakia and the Ukrainian Law Society. Soviet historiography kept silent about him. He died in Prague and is buried there.Collection7