 Andriy Livytskyi was born on 9 April 1879 in Lyplyavo (at the time part of the Russian Empire) into an old Cossack family.He finished the "Gymnasium of Pavlo Halahana" in Kiev, and later went on to study at the mathematical and juridical faculties of the St. Volodymyr Kiev University in 1896.In 1897 and 1899 he was held in the Lukyanivska Prison in Kiev for participation in protests.