the central rada self-destructed along with the newly minted president hrushevsky. day, in the kiev circus of krutikov, a congress of landowners and wealthy landowners elected a new ruler of ukraine, the hetman. pavel petrovich skoropadsky, his candidacy was approved by the german command. in real, of course, the germans were not going to transfer full power with the carpathians, in fact. they simply created a protectorate, where a person with such semi-diator semi-monarchal powers stood over this territory. he kept exclusively on german territory, he did not completely control it, and at the same time, in many respects, the policy was very contradictory in social and cultural aspects. it was no coincidence that the germans made a bet on skoropadsky before the revolution, he belonged to the elite of the russian empire. in may 1918, he turned 45 in public he invariably appeared in elegant cherkessk with a dagger and the order of st. george iv degree. his family took possession of huge land plots in the poltava and chernigov provinces and was considered one of the ric