Kammala wannan jumlar: An haife shi a cikin dangin Cossack mai daraja a Uman, Ukraine a shekara ta 1646, Skoropadsky ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Kyiv-Mohyla. A shekara ta 1675 ya shiga aikin soja na Cossack karkashin Hetman Ivan Samoylovych kuma ya bambanta kansa a
Yaƙin Russo-Turkish na 1676 <unk> 1681 kuma a sake a cikin balaguron Crimea a kan Daular Ottoman da Crimean Khanate a cikin 1688.