Danylo Skoropadskyi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Danylo Skoropadskyi

Ukrainian politician

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1904

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 23-Feb-1957

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Danylo Skoropadsky (Ukrainian: ?????? ?????????????; 13 February 1904, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Empire – 23 February 1957, London, Great Britain) was a famous Ukrainian politician and leader of the Ukrainian monarchist movement in 1948-1957 (now called the United Hetman Association).
He was the son of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky.
During the Hetmanate he studied at the First Gymnasium in Kiev in 1918.
In 1919 Skoropadskyi (with the whole House of 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 Skoropadsky in leading the Ukrainian monarchist movement.
In 1948 after the death of Hetman Pavlo, Danylo Skoropadsky became the leader of Ukrainian monarchists.
Danylo Skoropadsky had a child with Olesya Tukhai-Bei who he had walked out on, and 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 KGB agents.
On the 40th day after the death of Danylo, Halyna lost their mutual child, but Olesya fled to Canada with Danylo's child, Borys.