In December 1918 Hetman of the Ukrainian State Pavlo Skoropadskyi was deposed and the Directorate (also called Directoria) was established as the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic (abbreviated UNR).
Sviatoshyn (1918 - 1924), created by an administrative reform of Pavlo Skoropadskyi, was incorporated as a sub-raion into Rakhiv-Sviatoshyn
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As of 1917, there were 8 Raion Councils (Duma), which were reorganized by Pavlo Skoropadskyi into 17 raions.
Pavlo Skoropadskyi | Pavlo Tychyna | Pavlo Rebenok | Photo of Ukrainian Soviet newspaper article of the 1920s describing the circumstances of a fatal accident with Red Cossack, Kuzma Pavlo's son, Bublyk in 1925 in Izyaslav, Ukrainian Republic | photo of Ukrainian Soviet newspaper article of 1920s describing the circumstances of fatal accident with Red Cossack Kuzma Pavlo's son Bublyk in 1925 year in Izyaslav | Pavlo Lapshyn |
Many famous men served as Chevalier Guards including Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Denis Davydov, Mikhail Skobelev, Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Pavlo Skoropadskyi and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.