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Pavlo Skoropadskyi
1945Apr, 26

Pavlo Skoropadskyi

Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi (Ukrainian: Павло Петрович Скоропадський, romanized: Pavlo Petrovych Skoropads’kyy; Russian: Павел Петрович Скоропадский, romanized: Pavel Petrovich Skoropadskij; German: Paul Petrowitsch Skoropadskyj; 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1873 – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, decorated Imperial Russian Army and Ukrainian Army general of Cossack heritage. Skoropadsky became a conservative leader in Ukraine following the Russian Revolution of 1917, a founder of a hetman dynasty and Hetman of Ukraine.

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