Danylo Skoropadskyi

Who was Danylo Skoropadskyi?

Danylo Skoropadskyi is a famous Ukrainian politician and leader of the Ukrainian monarchist movement 1948-1957. He was the son of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi

During the Hetmanate he studied at the First Gymnasium in Kiev in 1918. In 1919 Skoropadskyi had to flee from Ukraine. He lived and studied first in Switzerland and then in Germany. In 1939 Danylo resettled to England.

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

Danylo Skoropadskyi became engaged on 13 February 1957 to Halyna Melnyk-Kaluzhynska, however, in a week and a half he died on 23 February 1957 in London after being poisoned probably by the KGB agents. On the 40th day after the death of Danylo, Halyna lost their mutual child.