Як став українцем В'ячеслав Липинський (поляк за походженням) | Велич особистості | червень '15

Viacheslav (Vacslav) Kazimierovych Lipýnsky (Polish: Wacław Lipiński) - Ukrainian politician, historian, historiographer, sociologist, publicist, theorist of Ukrainian conservatism. One of the organizers of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agricultural Party. During the Hetmanate, he was the ambassador of Ukraine to Austria. After the February Revolution (1917), he participated in the Ukrainization of military units in the Poltava region and at the same time, together with Serhiy Shemet, as he himself recalled, "politically organized the agricultural conservative elements in the Poltava region." At the same time, he became one of the founders and author of the political program of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agricultural Party, published in October 1917. After the liberation of Ukraine from the Bolsheviks, in the spring of 1918, Vyacheslav Lypynsky became close to Pavlo Skoropadsky, the future Hetman of the Ukrainian State. At the same time, conservative forces (UDHP, P. Skoropadsky's "Ukrainian People's Community" and the "Union of Landowners") created a coalition in opposition to the Central Rada and, under the official neutrality of the German occupation forces, began preparations for a coup d'état. On April 29, 1918, the Central Rada was overthrown, and Pavlo Skoropadsky was proclaimed Hetman.