Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haife shi a cikin dangin Cossack mai daraja a Uman, Ukraine a 1646, Skoropadsky ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Kyiv-Mohyla. A shekara ta 1675 ya shiga aikin soja na Cossack a karkashin Hetman Ivan Samoylovych kuma ya bambanta kansa a cikin Russo-Turkish War na 1676<unk>1681
kuma a sake a cikin balaguron Crimea da Ottoman Empire da Crimean Khanate a 1688.