Danylo Skoropadskyi

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Danylo Skoropadskyi (Ukrainian: Данило Скоропадський) (February 13, 1904, Saint-Petersburg, Russian empire - February 23, 1957, London, Great Britain) is a famous Ukrainian politician, son of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi, leader of Ukrainian monarchist movement in 1948-57, pretender to the Ukrainian throne.

In 1918, during the Hetmanate he studied at the First Gymnasium in Kyiv. In 1919 Skoropadskyi (with the whole House of Skoropadskie) had to flee from Ukraine. He lived and studied first in Switzerland, than in Germany. In 1939 Danylo resettled to England.

Since 1932 he assisted Pavlo Skoropadskyi, his father, in leading the Ukrainian monarchist movement. In 1948, after the death of Hetman Pavlo, Danylo Skoropadskyi became the leader of Ukrainian monarchists.

Danylo Skoropadskyi died on February 23, 1957 in London after being poisoned probably by the KGB agents.

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• Тамара Ралдугіна Штрихи до портрета спадкоємця останнього гетьмана України Данила Скоропадського (1904—1957 рр.) (Tamara Ralduhina. The portrait of heir of the last Hetman of Ukraine Danylo Skoropadskyi) — Ukrainian historic journal. 2004. № 6 ISSN 0130-5247