Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau mai a Skoropadsky ki roto i tētahi whānau rangatira Cossack i Uman, Ukraine i te tau 1646, i kuraina ia ki Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. I te tau 1675 ka uru ia ki te ratonga hoia Cossack i raro i te Hetman Ivan Samoylovych me te wehewehe i a ia i roto i nga mahi a te Kawana o Moscow.
Ko te Pakanga a Ruhia-Turiki o te 1676<unk>1681 me te wa ano i te haerenga Crimean ki te Ottoman Empire me te Crimean Khanate i te 1688.