Born into a noble family in the village Chabanivka near
Kamianets-Podilskyi, his father was Stefan Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz, and mother was Laura Piotrawin-Janiszewska. 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 ambassador 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. Polish general
Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz was a member of the same family. Tokarzewski was married to Oksana Lototsky, a daughter of another diplomat
Oleksander Lototsky. Tokarzewski's sister Helena married lawyer , who also served in Polish army during
Polish-Ukrainian and
Polish-Soviet war. ==References==