| Miroslav I of Ukraine | |
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| Hetman of Ukraine | |
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| Birth name | Myroslav Havrylovych Skoropadsky |
| Ukrainian name: | Мірослав Гаврилович Скоропадський |
| Russian name: | Мирослав Гаврилович Скоропадский |
| Born | May 24, 1967 |
| Birthplace |  Yekatrinoslav, Russia(  Yekatrinoslav, Ukraine) |
| Place of death | Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Buried | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Successor | Wassily I |
| Consort | Galina I |
| Offspring | Crown Prince Wassily I Gavrllovich Prince Volodymyr I Princess Cecilia Prince Paul |
| Royal House | Skoropadsky |
| Religious beliefs | Eastern Orthodox |
Myroslav Havrylovych Skoropadsky (Ukrainian: Мірослав Гаврилович Скоропадський) also Miroslav Gavrilovich Skoropadsky (Russian: Мирослав Гаврилович Скоропадский, born May 24, 1967) or Miroslav I Gavrilovich, Hetman of Ukraine; was the King of Hetman of Ukraine from 1992 to 2001.
Miroslav succeeded his father as the Hetman of Ukraine (as a Russian Grand Principality) in 1987. During the Ukrainian Peaceful Revolutions of 1980, while he didn't advocate for Ukrainian independence, he stated he would not actively oppose an independent Ukrainian state, and had been present in the 1987 talks between local Ukrainian leaders and Russian government authorities.
He was one of the signatories of the 1992 Belovezha Accords, which granted Ukraine its independence. As expected, and as in the first Ukrainian independence movement, the newly-established Provisional Rada was torn between republican anti-Russian groups, and monarchist pro-Russian groups.
In 2001, he was assassinated by members of the UNA-UNSO, a Ukrainian Russophonic ultra-nationalist group. He was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Wassily I Miroslavivch. This eventually led to the 2001 Crackdown on the West, and the imposition of martial law in western Ukraine by the government.
Biography[]
Miroslav I was born on May 24, 1967 on the city of Yekatrinoslav (today Dnipropetrovsk) in the Autonomous Ukrainian State. He was the eldest of Gabriel I Petrovich, Hetman of Ukraine and his consort, Tatyana I Borisova. He brought up in a Ukrainian education, attended the Royal Ukrainian Gymnasium of Yekatrinoslav, and later graduated from the Royal Technical Military Academy of Moscow. He settled in a community of ethnic Ukrainians in Moscow.
He would go on the serve in the Imperial Russian military, first as part of the 1st Royal Kievan Cossacks and later the Imperial Russian Navy.
1980 Ukrainian Revolution[]
During the Peaceful Revolutions of the 1980s, the Crown Prince attempted to distance himself from the political events, but stated it got to a point where he couldn't.
In his memoirs, he stated, "You know, given to how detrimental revolutions of the extreme have gone in the past, I tried to shy away from any involvement. But as it got stronger, I had two options: stay in Ukraine nad prove my Ukrainian identity, or flee to Moscow or Saint Petersburg and bee seen a coward."
The Crown Prince had spoken with Ukrainian revolutionaries, and in Ukrainian to gain their respect and retain his title as the monarch of Ukraine.
Hetman of Ukraine[]
in 1987, he succeeded his father, Gabriel I as the Hetman of Ukraine, at a time when the Ukrainian National Revolutions was taking place. He had decided, he had no choice but to support the independent state, and offered to be a signatory at any bilateral talks.
1992 Belovezha ACcordds[]
He was present at the 1992 Belovasha Accords, and was the one to sign Ukraine into independence. Already, ultranationalists were not happy, who felt that the new Hetman would remain a Russian puppet, even though he supported Ukrainian re-unification. He established the Provisional Rada to elect a Prime Minister that would dictate civil power, while he gave up some of his.
Assassination[]
While the Hetman was giving a speech at the Kharkov Tank Factory #4, a disgraced Royal Ukrainian army personnel turned UNA-UNSO, Dmytro Andrusyshyn, began an altercation with a group of watchers, who too, were members of the UNA-UNSO meant to distract the guards.
After the two groups were "busy" altercating, Andrusyshyn used the ensuing crowd chaos to fire a Makarov pistol at the speaking Hetman, killing two Royal Guard members. The Royal Guards were able to shoot and kill Dmytro, and other Royal Guard units pursued Dmytro's accomplices.
Burial[]
Hetman Miroslav I was buried in the Royal Cemetary in the capital city of Kiev. His burial was attended by high-ranking nobles, elite and politicians from Ukraine, as well as Russia, Belarus and Poland. Maria the Gracious, the current Empress of Russia also visited his burital.
Several Ukrainian celebrities also visited the fallen Hetman's burial, including the Klitchsko brothers, and even Russian-Ukrainian-American Milla Jovovich.
Political impact - martial law in Western Ukraine[]
The effects bore reminiscent to September 11 in the United States, eerily Prince Volodymyr I was in New York City months before the attack. Even pro-Europeanist and Russoskpetic parties denounced the attcks. Immediately afterwards, the UNA-UNSO and other parties of the like, namely Svoboda, were put under investigation. After Dmytro's association with the UNA-UNSO was found, that political party was immediately deemed a terrorist organization by the Rada, and deregistered as a political party.
Afterwards, ahead of the looming martial law, members of the UNA-UNSO started to enact their own "martial law" by committing atrocities against any suspected Russian-sympathizers or ethnic Russians in western Ukraine, vandalizing anything Russian. Many celebrating the Hetman's assassination, only fueling more ammo for the Rada to enact martial law. After reports of Polish overseas in western Ukraine, who just happened to be fluent in Russian, were kidnapped, the government of Poland soon show their support towards any retaliatory measures the Rada may take.
Within a week, martial law was imposed in western Ukraine, and government authorities suggested companies not to hire anyone coming from Lviv. The city of Lviv was put on lockdown with curfews enacted. Gun shops in western Ukraine were all ordered to close.
There were increased police and surveillance in the west, and any citizens leaving western Ukraine were subject to police checkpoints to travel elsewhere.
The impact also had international implications, as Russian authorities increased their background checks on anyone carrying Ukrainian citizenship working or living in the country, people with IDs from western Ukraine were subjected to discrimination.