Hryhorii Skovoroda

✶December 3, 1722

†November 9, 1794

3 candles burning, 9 lit in all

About their life

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".

Ukrainian philosopher (1722–1794)

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