Skoropadsky, Mikhail Vasilievich

Mikhail Vasilyevich Skoropadsky’s father Vasily received promotions following the promotions of his older brother Ilya - at first he was a Berezinsky centurion, and then made a Chernigov regimental convoy, acquired a lot of land in different places of the Chernigov regiment, built mills on them, founded settlements (he had many villages in Sosnitsky district). From his brother they were received and maynostn, which in 1718 were fixed by the royal letter. He died in 1727 . Of his two sons, Ivan and Mikhail, the first remained in obscurity, and Mikhail later became one of the important officials; he stood out from among his comrades in part by his practical mind, and even more by his close kinship with the hetman's house.

In 1715 he began military service, married Princess Chetvertinskaya , and after her death - the daughter of Mirgorod colonel, and then the hetman, the Apostle. In 1727 he went on a hike to Gilan, but, thanks to his connections, he escaped from the campaign earlier than others. He received a great inheritance after his father’s death, Mikhail became one of the first rich people, kept his house open and was famous for hospitality and even more than hospitality - revelry and card game were the usual pastime of wealthy houses.

After the death of the Apostle in 1734, he found a new patron in the person of Prince Alexei Shakhovsky , who was at the head of the administration of Little Russia at that time. With his help, Mikhail in 1734 procured a royal certificate for all his estates. In 1739 he participated in the Khotinsky campaign, but, like from Gilyansky, he returned very quickly. On April 27, 1741, he received the general detachment of military podskarbia. When in 1744, Empress Elizabeth, visiting Little Russia, was in Glukhov - the hetman's residence, then Mikhail Skoropadsky, on behalf of the local foreman, greeted the empress there with a speech, and then the newly appointed hetman Count Razumovsky, when he arrived in Glukhov in the summer of 1751 . In 1753, Mikhail Skoropadsky was appointed assistant to the manager of the General Chancellery, but he stayed in this position for no more than a year, since Razumovsky gave him resignation on the complaint of his favorite, the manager of the chancellery, Kochubey, who, no matter how hard he tried, could not please the old scribble. Mikhail Skoropadsky died in 1758 .

His children - Ivan, Jacob and Peter graduated from the course at the Kiev Academy. A few years after the death of his father, the first received the rank of general esaul, and the second - of the buncheon. In 1762, Ivan refused to sign a petition for the provision of a hetman's mace through the hereditary line of the name of Count Razumovsky. In 1767 he was elected to the Commission for the preparation of a new code. Earlier in charge of Little Russian affairs, Count Rumyantsev wrote about Catherine II about Ivan Skoropadsky, that he "remained a Cossack under all sciences ... another time on February 27, 1768 - that" Skoropadsky was the leader of all the others, for he dreamed of being elected to hetman. " According to Catherine II’s response, in a letter to Rumyantsev, “Skoropadsky behaves (in the capital) like a wolf and does not want to know any of ours.” Ivan Skoropadsky died in 1782.

• Markevich N., “History of Lesser Russia”.