Oleksandra Skoropadska

Oleksandra Petrivna Skoropadska (née: Durnovo; 23 May 1878 – 29 December 1952) was a spouse of Ukrainian political leader Pavlo Skoropadskyi, a founder of a hetman dynasty and Hetman of Ukraine (1918).

11 January 1898, she married Pavlo Skoropadskyi 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.

• 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 aristocrat, military and state leader, Ukrainian Army general 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.
• 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).