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Oleksandra Skoropadska

<p><b>Oleksandra Petrivna Skoropadska</b> (<i><a href="/en/Née" title="Née" class="mw-redirect wl">née</a></i>: Durnovo; 23 May 1878 – 29 December 1952) was a spouse of Ukrainian political and military leader <a href="/en/Pavlo_Skoropadskyi" title="Pavlo Skoropadskyi" class="wl">Pavlo Skoropadskyi</a>, a member of the <a href="/en/Skoropadsky_family" title="Skoropadsky family" class="wl">Skoropadsky family</a> and <a href="/en/Hetman_of_Ukraine" title="Hetman of Ukraine" class="wl">Hetman of Ukraine</a> (1918).</p>

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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: Oleksandra Skoropadska   Олександра Скоропадс...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox vcard mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Oleksandra Skoropadska <br> Олександра Скоропадська</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:Oleksandra_Skoropadska.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Oleksandra_Skoropadska.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Oleksandra_Skoropadska.jpg/220px-Oleksandra_Skoropadska.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="339" data-file-height="502" data-file-type="bitmap" height="326" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Oleksandra_Skoropadska.jpg/330px-Oleksandra_Skoropadska.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Oleksandra_Skoropadska.jpg 2x" alt="Oleksandra_Skoropadska.jpg"></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Spouse of the <a href="/en/Hetman_of_Ukraine" title="Hetman of Ukraine" class="wl">Hetman of Ukraine</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In role</b></span><br>1918</td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles"></style></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Maria-Ivanna_Hrushevska" title="Maria-Ivanna Hrushevska" class="wl">Maria-Ivanna Hrushevska</a> <i>(as <a href="/en/First_Lady_of_Ukraine" title="First Lady of Ukraine" class="wl">First Lady of Ukraine</a>)</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Rozalia_Vynnychenko" title="Rozalia Vynnychenko" class="wl">Rozalia Vynnychenko</a> <i>(as <a href="/en/First_Lady_of_Ukraine" title="First Lady of Ukraine" class="wl">First Lady of Ukraine</a>)</i></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Oleksandra Petrivna Durnovo</div><br><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1878-05-23</span>)</span>23 May 1878<br><a href="/en/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire" class="wl">Russian Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">29 December 1952<span style="display:none">(1952-12-29)</span> (aged<span>&nbsp;</span>74)<br><a href="/en/West_Germany" title="West Germany" class="wl">West Germany</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Pavlo_Skoropadskyi" title="Pavlo Skoropadskyi" class="wl">Pavlo Skoropadskyi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater" class="wl">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Sorbonne_University" title="Sorbonne University" class="wl">Sorbonne University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Spouse of the <a href="/en/Hetman_of_Ukraine" title="Hetman of Ukraine" class="wl">Hetman of Ukraine</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right; font-size: 95%"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>
<p>11 January 1898, she married <a href="/en/Pavlo_Skoropadskyi" title="Pavlo Skoropadskyi" class="wl">Pavlo Skoropadskyi</a><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> 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 <a href="/en/Germany" title="Germany" class="wl">Germany</a>.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span></p>



Oleksandra Petrivna Skoropadska was a spouse of Ukrainian political and military leader Pavlo Skoropadskyi, a member of the Skoropadsky family and Hetman of Ukraine . 11 January 1898, she married Pavlo Skoropadskyi 