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Pavlo Skoropadskyi

1873 - 1945

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Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi (Ukrainian: Павло Петрович Скоропадський; 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1873 – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, who served as the hetman of the Ukrainian State throughout 1918 following a coup d'état in April 29 of the same year. Born the son of a nobleman, he attended the Page Corps from which he came out an officer. After his service in the Russo-Japanese War, he was promoted to the rank of colonel, later in command of the 20th Finnish Dragoon Regiment in 1910. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavlo Skoropadskyi has received more than 326,916 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Pavlo Skoropadskyi is the 2,531st most popular politician (up from 2,966th in 2019), the 671st most popular biography from Germany (up from 809th in 2019) and the 182nd most popular German Politician.

Pavlo Skoropadskyi is most famous for being the last Hetman of Ukraine. Pavlo Skoropadskyi was born on September 18, 1873 in the village of Novospasivka, Ukraine. He was educated at the Kiev Theological Academy and became a member of the Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Pavlo Skoropadskyi was elected Hetman of Ukraine on April 29, 1918, but he was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1920.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pavlo Skoropadskyi ranks 2,531 out of 19,576. Before him are Pupienus, Tarō Asō, Irene of Hungary, Victor Lustig, Tomislav Nikolić, and Georges Couthon. After him are Paul Reynaud, Eric IV of Denmark, Souphanouvong, Asmā' bint Abi Bakr, Jie of Xia, and Emperor Gaozong of Song.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Pavlo Skoropadskyi ranks 22. Before him are Alberto Santos-Dumont, Julius Martov, G. E. Moore, Max Reger, Spyridon Louis, and Sándor Ferenczi. After him are William McMaster Murdoch, Francisco I. Madero, Kyösti Kallio, Max Reinhardt, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Christian Rakovsky. Among people deceased in 1945, Pavlo Skoropadskyi ranks 58. Before him are Karl Hanke, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Robert H. Goddard, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and Fumimaro Konoe. After him are Karl-Otto Koch, Georg Elser, Felix Salten, Boris Shaposhnikov, Kurt Knispel, and Arthur Nebe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Pavlo Skoropadskyi ranks 671 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner von Haeften (1908), Otto Grotewohl (1894), Manfred Eigen (1927), Berti Vogts (1946), Georg Wittig (1897), and August Macke (1887). After him are Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636), Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Ernst Mayr (1904), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Pavlo Skoropadskyi ranks 182. Before him are John of Saxony (1801), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), Karl Carstens (1914), Werner von Haeften (1908), and Otto Grotewohl (1894). After him are Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636), Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Jürgen Stroop (1895), Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821), and George V of Hanover (1819).

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