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 Hryhoriy Savych Skovoroda

  was an outstanding Ukrainian philosopher-mystic, theologian, poet, teacher, possibly a composer of liturgical music. He had a significant influence on contemporaries and subsequent generations with his fables, songs, philosophical works, as well as his way of life, which is why he was called "Socrates".

 Hryhoriy Savych Skovoroda  was born in the hundred-hundredth town of Chornukha of the Lubensky Regiment, now in the Poltava region, in the Cossack family of Sava and Pelageya. Sava Skovoroda's father was an ordinary Cossack. At the age of seven, Grigory was sent to a four-year Dyakiv school in Chornuhy.

  In August 1734, Hryhoriy entered the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, which at that time was at the peak of its prosperity. In the first, ordinary class (analogy, infima) they studied the Ukrainian literary and Polish languages ​​and gradually switched to Latin, which became the main language in subsequent classes, and also studied Church Slavonic. In 1735-1738, Skovoroda continued his studies in the following grammar classes, studied Latin, prose and poetic works in this language. Then there were poetry and rhetoric classes, and in 1739-1740 he began to learn Greek, German, and Hebrew from Simon Todorsky. Then the training scheme included a two-year philosophy class where dialectics, logic, ethics, physics, and metaphysics were studied. In this class, Skovoroda studied under the guidance of the prefect of the academy Mykhailo Kozachynsky.

 Skovoroda chose a new and previously unknown lifestyle, namely, traveling. And this journey lasted until his death - a quarter of a century. It was full of adventures, shrouded in tales and legends. In it, the philosopher was never separated from the Bible, pipe or flute, and his works. His fame spread widely, and many desired to see and hear him as the spokesman of great truth.