Ivan Skoropadskyi

Ivan Skoropadskyj on a Ukrainian postage stamp (2003)

Ivan Skoropadsky ( Ukrainian Іван Скоропадський , scientific. Transliteration Ivan Skoropads'kyj * to 1646 in Uman , † July 3 ^{. Jul} / 14. July 1722 ^{. Greg} in Hlukhiv ) was Hetman of Zaporozhye Cossacks from 1708 to 1722. He was the successor by Iwan Masepa .

Skoropadskyj was born into a noble Cossack family in Uman and studied at the Kiev Mohyla Academy .

During the Great Northern War , Skoropadskyj was a colonel in the Starodub Cossack Regiment. After the Swedish army marched into the semi-autonomous Cossack hetmanate as part of the Russian tsarist empire in 1708 , Iwan Masepa refused to follow the Russian tsar Peter I and switched sides. Only about 3000 Cossacks, mostly Zaporozhian Cossacks , followed Masepa, while most remained loyal to the Tsar. Peter ordered that Ivan Skoropadskyj be elected as the new hetman on November 11, 1708.

Ivan Skoropadskyj moved the capital of the Cossack hetmanates from Baturyn , which was razed to the ground by the Russian army because of Masepa's rebellion, to the city of Hluchiw . After Masepa's defeat in the Battle of Poltava , Skoropadskyj tried to regain the trust of Peter I and to obtain greater autonomy for the hetmanates and more rights for the Cossack nobility.

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SURNAME	Skoropadskyj, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Skoropads'kyj, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uman
DATE OF DEATH	July 14, 1722
Place of death	Hluchiw