Воспоминания. Скоропадский

Vospominanii͡a Pavla Petrovicha Skoropadskogo (1873-1945), general-leĭtenanta Rossiĭskoĭ armii, geroi͡a Russko-i͡aponskoĭ i Pervoĭ mirovoĭ voĭn, okhvatyvai͡ut ochenʹ nebolʹshoĭ promezhutok vremeni. No v ėti mesi͡at͡sy proizoshlo stolʹko sobytiĭ, chto ikh s likhvoĭ khvatilo by na neskolʹko desi͡atiletiĭ: provozglashenie nezavisimoĭ Ukrainskoĭ derzhavy s getmanom vo glave (kotorym i stal Skoropadskiĭ), fakticheskai͡a okkupat͡sii͡a Ukrainy nemet͡skimi voĭskami, popytki provedenii͡a reform, nepreryvnai͡a borʹba za vlastʹ v neustoi͡avshemsi͡a gosudarstve i begstvo getmana iz Kieva v Germanii͡u. Bolʹshinstvu chitateleĭ Skoropadskiĭ izvesten lishʹ kak personazh proizvedeniĭ M.A. Bulgakova - pʹesy "Dni Turbinykh" i romana "Belai͡a gvardii͡a", v kotorykh on vyveden kak figura polu-anekdoticheskai͡a. Mezhdu tem sudʹba getmana byla skoree dramaticheskoĭ: ubezhdënnyĭ monarkhist i zashchitnik imperii, on prini͡al vlastʹ v odnom iz eë oskolkov; boevoĭ ofit͡ser, khrabro srazhavshiĭsi͡a s nemt͡sami, on byl vynuzhden prini͡atʹ ikh protektorat i bolee chetverti veka provël v ėmigrat͡sii v Germanii… Vospominanii͡a Skoropadskogo pomogut chitateli͡u poni͡atʹ odin iz samykh slozhnykh ėpizodov Grazhdanskoĭ voĭny, a vozmozhno, i dadut dopolnitelʹnyĭ kli͡uch k ponimanii͡u segodni͡ashnikh sobytiĭ na Ukraine.

Memories of Pavel Petrovich Skoropadsky (1873-1945), Lieutenant General of the Russian army, hero of the Russian-Japanese and World war I, cover a very short period of time. But in these months there were so many events that they would be more than enough for several decades: the proclamation of an independent Ukrainian state with a Hetman at the head (which Skoropadsky became), the actual occupation of Ukraine by German troops, attempts to reform, the continuous struggle for power in an unstable state and the flight of the Hetman from Kiev to Germany. Most readers Skoropadsky is known only as a character in the works of M. A. Bulgakov-the play "Days of the Turbins" and the novel "the White guard", in which he is derived as a semi-anecdotal figure. Meanwhile, the fate of the Hetman was rather dramatic: a convinced monarchist and defender of the Empire, he took power in one of its fragments; a combat officer who fought bravely with the Germans, he was forced to accept their protectorate and spent more than a quarter of a century in exile in Germany ... Skoropadsky's Memoirs will help the reader to understand one of the most difficult episodes of the Civil war, and perhaps will give an additional clue to the understanding of today's events in Ukraine.