Volkonskiĭ Alexander. The Ukraine question; the history truth versus the separatist propaganda

Rome: E. Armani, 1920. — 239 p.The dismemberment of Russia was one of the aims pursued by Germany in the Great War. The Allied Powers, in this matter, follow the track marked out by Germany : it only remains for them to recognise the independence of the whole of South Russia (arbitrarily* called the Ukraine by Germany) and the German dream will be realised. When one intends to commit an act of injustice, one willingly takes for certain every fact which seems to lend a colour of justice to it. This explains the legend of an Ukrainian people and of a Russian yoke that was crushing out' their life, which has found such a successful reception in the press of the Entente countries. Were one in search of a good example of the way in which the press can create a false public opinion, a better could not be found than that furnished by the propdganda of the (I krainophile party.
*See sketch-map in appendix V.Prince Alexandr Mikhailovich Volkonsky (Russian: Александр Михайлович Волконский, April 25, 1866, St. Petersburg Governorate – 18 October 1934, Rome) was Russian military diplomat, writer, and a Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite.After the Bolshevik revolution he remained in Italy in exile. Maintained close ties with General Pyotr Wrangel. He authored several works, directed against the Ukrainian separatist movement, among them "The Ukraine question : The historic truth versus the separatist propaganda" (1920), published in Russian, English and French -> DJVU.
His other works were the "Name of Russia in the pre-Mongolian time"] (1929), "What is the main danger?" (1929), "Little Russian and Ukrainian" (1929).
In 1930 he converted to the Catholic Faith from Russian Orthodoxy. On 6 July 1930 was ordained to the priesthood by Bulgarian Roman Catholic bishop, Exarch of Sofia Cyril Kurtev. He participated in the Congress of the Russian Catholic clergy in Rome (1930), on behalf of which he wrote historical and the dogmatic work "Catholicism and the Holy Tradition of the East " (Paris, 1933 - 1934). Volkonsky worked at the Pontifical Commission Pro Russia, which was responsible for all matters concerning Catholics of all rites inside the Soviet Union and Russians in the Diaspora, and as a teacher of Russian and other Slavic languages at the Pontifical Oriental Institute.
Volkonsky died on October 18, 1934 in Rome. He was buried in the crypt of the Greek College in Rome's Campo Verano cemetery (grave was not preserved).