Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military and state leader, who served as the Hetman of the Ukrainian State throughout 1918 following a coup d'état in April 29 of the same year.

The Ukrainian State, sometimes also called the Second Hetmanate, was an anti-Bolshevik government that existed on most of the modern territory of Ukraine from 29 April to 14 December 1918.