He subsequently lived and studied in Switzerland, and then in Germany, where his father had been granted political asylum in Munich.

From 1932, he assisted his father Pavlo Skoropadskyi in leading the Ukrainian monarchist movement.

In 1948, after the death of his father, Skoropadskyi became the leader of the Ukrainian monarchist (Hetmanate) movement as pretender to the throne.

[citation needed] Skoropadskyi was engaged on 13 February 1957 to Halyna Melnyk-Kaluzhynska;[1][2] however, he died a week and a half after being poisoned by agents of the KGB in an operation to eliminate Ukrainian independence leaders.

After World War II, Kaluzhynska relocated to the United Kingdom along with many other displaced persons.