Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet, composer, and philosopher (died 1794)

Hryhorii Skovoroda

Ukrainian philosopher (1722–1794)

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…