Complex sentence: Konowal was born in a peasant family on 15 September 1888 in Kutkivtsi, in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) and went on to serve in the Imperial Russian Army before emigrating to Canada.
Split into simpler sentences: Konowal was born in a peasant family on 15 September 1888 in Kutkivtsi, in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Eventually Konowal went on to serve in the Imperial Russian Army before emigrating to Canada.