Oleksandra Skoropadska Олександра Скоропадська | |
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Spouse of the Hetman of Ukraine | |
In role 1918 | |
Preceded by | Maria-Ivanna Hrushevska (as First Lady of Ukraine) |
Succeeded by | Rozalia Vynnychenko (as First Lady of Ukraine) |
Personal details | |
Born | Oleksandra Petrivna Durnovo 23 May 1878 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Died | 29 December 1952 Oberstdorf, Bavaria, West Germany | (aged 74)
Spouse | Pavlo Skoropadskyi |
Children | 6 |
Alma mater | Sorbonne University |
Occupation | Spouse of the Hetman of Ukraine |
Oleksandra Petrivna Skoropadska (née Durnovo; 23 May 1878 – 29 December 1952) was a spouse of Ukrainian political and military leader Pavlo Skoropadskyi, a member of the Skoropadsky family and Hetman of Ukraine (1918).
11 January 1898, she married Pavlo Skoropadskyi[1] From 1923, she worked at the Ukrainian Red Cross Assistance, which was also called the Ukrainian Refugee Assistance and was headed by her. The main purpose of the organization was to assist the refugees who kept arriving in Germany.[2]