Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pavlo Petrovich Skoropadskyi (German: Paul Petrowitsch Skoropadskyj; Russian: Pavel Petrovi Skoropadskij; Ukrainian: Pavlo Petrovich Skoropads''kyj) 3 May 1873, Wiesbaden, Germany 26 April 1945, Metten monastery clinic, Bavaria, Germany) was a Ukrainian politician, earlier an aristocrat and decorated Imperial Russian Army general. Skoropadsky became a conservative leader in Ukraine''s unsuccessful struggle for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was born in a family of Skoropadskie, the Ukrainian military leaders and statesmen, that distinguished themselves since the XVII century when Fedir Skoropadsky heroically participated in the Battle of Zhovti Vody.