The book tells about the history of Ukraine and Crimea in 1918 - early 1919. The monograph examines political processes in Ukraine and Crimea, the author's focus is on the history of the Ukrainian Power of the Hetman P.P. Skoropadsky, the German occupation of Ukraine, the ideology of the hetman, Skoropadsky's relationship with the Russian White movement, the prerequisites of the French intervention in the south of Russia and the reasons for its failure, the specifics of the development of the revolutionary process in Crimea, the reasons for the collapse of the regimes of Generals Skoropadsky and Sulkevich.