Oleksandra Petrivna Skoropadska (''
née
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'': Durnovo; 23 May 1878 – 29 December 1952) was a spouse of Ukrainian political and military leader
Pavlo Skoropadskyi
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi ( uk, Павло Петрович Скоропадський, Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi; – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, decorated Imperial Russian Army and Ukrainian Army ...
, a member of the
Skoropadsky family and
Hetman of Ukraine
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Brief history
As a head of state the position was establi ...
(1918).
11 January 1898, she married
Pavlo Skoropadskyi
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi ( uk, Павло Петрович Скоропадський, Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi; – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, decorated Imperial Russian Army and Ukrainian Army ...
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
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.
Family
* father Petro Pavlovyh Durnovo (of a notable family of Russian statesmen and landowners)
* mother Maria Vasiliyevna Kochubey (of Ukrainian Cossack
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*Vasyl Kochubey (1640–1708), Ukrainian nobleman
*Viktor Kochubey (1768–1834), Russian statesman of Ukrainian descent
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noble family).
* spouse
Pavlo Skoropadskyi
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi ( uk, Павло Петрович Скоропадський, Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi; – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, decorated Imperial Russian Army and Ukrainian Army ...
(1873–1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, Ukrainian Army
general
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In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...
of Cossack heritage.
She have six children:
* Maria (1898–1959), who married Adam de Montrésor.
* Yelyzaveta (1899–1976), who married Mr. Kuzhym, a painter, sculptor, leader of Hetman Movement (1959-?).
* Petro (1900–1956), who suffered from
epilepsy
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.
*
Danylo Skoropadsky (1906–1957).
* Pavlo (1915–1918), who died from disease.
* Olena Skoropadska-Ott (1919–2014), who married Gerd Ginder (died on April 10, 1945) on August 31, 1943, and married Ludwig Ott on March 20, 1948; her two children are:
**Alexandra (born 30 January 1954), she married Martin König and had a son Dimitri (born 1989).
**Irene (born 30 January 1954). She married cultural event manager Roger Cahn (1948 - 2018).
References
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1878 births
1952 deaths
First Ladies of Ukraine
Ukrainian people of Russian descent