Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau mai a Skoropadsky i roto i tētahi whānau rangatira Cossack i Uman, Ukraine i te tau 1646, i whakaakona ia ki Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. I te tau 1675 ka uru ia ki te mahi hoia Cossack i raro i te Hetman Ivan Samoylovych me te wehewehe i a ia ano i te Pakanga Russo-Turkish o 1676<unk>1681
A, i te wa ano i roto i te haerenga Crimean ki te Ottoman Empire me Crimean Khanate i te 1688.