Hryhorii Skovoroda

Григорій Савич Сковорода

full name: Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda·aka Gregory Skovoroda; Grigory Skovoroda·aka Григорий Саввич Сковорода (Russian); Gregorius Scovoroda (Latin)

Country

Ukraine, Russian Empire

Languages

Ukrainian, Russian, Church Slavonic

Dates

1722 — 1794

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Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda, was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. He was a poet, a teacher and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations and his way of life were universally regarded as Socratic, and he was often called a "Socrates".