Oleksandra Skoropadska Explained

Oleksandra Skoropadska Олександра Скоропадська
Birth Name:	Oleksandra Petrivna Durnovo
Birth Date:	1878 5, df=y
Birth Place:	Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Oberstdorf,Bavaria, West Germany
Occupation:	Spouse of the Hetman of Ukraine
Order1:	Spouse of the Hetman of Ukraine
Term Label1:	In role
Term1:	1918
Predecessor1:	Maria-Ivanna Hrushevska (as First Lady of Ukraine)
Successor1:	Rozalia Vynnychenko (as First Lady of Ukraine)
Alma Mater:	Sorbonne University
Spouse:	Pavlo Skoropadskyi
Children:	6

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]

Family

• father - Petro Pavlovyh Durnovo (of a notable family of Russian statesmen and landowners)
• mother - Maria Vasiliyevna Kochubey (of Ukrainian Cossack Kochubey noble family).
• spouse - Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873–1945) was a Ukrainian^[3] aristocrat, military and state leader,^[4] Ukrainian Army general of Cossack heritage.

She had six children:

• Maria (1898–1959), who married Adam de Montrésor.
• Yelyzaveta (1899–1976),^[5] who married Mr. Kuzhym, a painter, sculptor, leader of the Hetman Movement (1959-?).
• Petro (1900–1956), who suffered from epilepsy.
• Danylo Skoropadsky (1906–1957).
• Pavlo (1915–1918), who died from disease.
• Olena Skoropadska-Ott (1919–2014),^[6] who married Gerd Ginder (died on 10 April 1945) on 31 August 1943, and married Ludwig Ott on 20 March 1948; her two children are:
  • Alexandra (born 30 January 1954), she married Martin König and had a son Dimitri (born 1989).^{[7] [8] [9]}
  • Irene (born 30 January 1954). She married cultural event manager Roger Cahn (1948 - 2018).

References

1. Kulyova, V. General's daughter. Khreshchatyk. 8 November 2002
2. https://m.tyzhden.ua/publication/132909 Lilly, The Hetman's Daughter
3. http://ukrbiblioteka.org/uploads/books/_PDF/za-velych-nacii-skoropadskyj.pdf Book
4. Web site: СКОРОПАДСКИЙ, ПАВЕЛ ПЕТРОВИЧ - Энциклопедия Кругосвет. www.krugosvet.ru.
5. Web site: The Ukrainian Week. ukrainianweek.com.
6. Web site: 7 ДНІВ-УКРАЇНА » У Швейцарії померла донька останнього гетьмана України Павла Скоропадського. 7days-ua.com. 5 August 2014.
7. Web site: Olena Ott-Skoropadsky: Memories of my childhood (21 Jan 2012).
8. Web site: 2009 року Олена Отт-Скоропадська відзначить своє 90-річчя. 14 April 2009.
9. Web site: Gedenkseite von Olena Ott-Skoropadsky - trauer.nzz.ch. trauer.nzz.ch.