Danylo Skoropadskyi
Danylo Pavlovych Skoropadskyi was a Ukrainian politician who served as the leader of the Ukrainian monarchist movement. He had the title of crown prince of Ukraine from 1918 to 1919. He was the eldest surviving son of Pavlo Skoropadskyi.
Biography
During the existence of the Ukrainian State, he studied at the First Gymnasium in Kyiv in 1918. In 1919, Skoropadskyi, along with other members of the House of Skoropadskyi, was forced to flee from Ukraine due to the collapse of his father's regime immediately prior to the Soviet-Polish War. He subsequently lived and studied in Switzerland, and then in Germany, where his father had been granted political asylum in Munich. He moved to London in 1939.From 1932, he assisted his father Pavlo Skoropadskyi in leading the Hetmanite movement. In 1948, after the death of his father, Skoropadskyi became the leader of the Hetmanite movement as pretender to the throne.
Skoropadskyi was engaged on 13 February 1957 to Halyna Melnyk-Kaluzhynska; however, he died a week and a half after being poisoned by agents of the KGB in an operation to eliminate Ukrainian independence leaders. He is alleged to have had a child out of wedlock with Olesya Tukhai-Bei, although this has never been proven.