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  Skovoroda Introduction
The 18th-century Ukrainian philosopher, mystic, poet Hryhori Skovoroda, author of the collection of poems Garden of Divine Songs as well as several prose works, represents the end of the Ukrainian baroque, a period marked by a keen fascination with emblematics.
The very course of Skovoroda's life is emblematic, forming a circle.
He fondly remembered the place of his birth as a land of woods, hills, springs, and gardens.
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The monument of Skovoroda in front of the university is also decorated with a mortarboard during the yearly graduation ceremony taking place on June 28.
Another tradition during the graduation is to carry the univerisity turtle named Alma around the new graduates who make wishes after having touched her shell.
An important figure in East Sclavic philosophy Hryhori Skovoroda was an alumnus of the university.
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 Hrygori Skovoroda
Hryhori Skovoroda was born in the family of a poor Cossack in the village of Chornukhy in the Lubny regiment of the Hetman State ("Malorossiia") in 1722.
He studied at the Kievan Academy (1734-1741, 1744-1745, 1751-1753) but did not complete the full program.
From 1759 to 1769, with interruptions, he taught such subjects as poetry, syntax, Greek, and ethics at the Kharkov College.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hr/hrygori_skovoroda.html   (275 words)

  
 Ukrainian 101 > Ukrainian Language > Literature
Much literature was written in the periods of the old and middle Ukrainian language, including legal acts, polemical articles, science treatises and fiction of all sorts.
Influential literary figures in the development of modern Ukrainian literature include the philosopher Hryhori Skovoroda, Mykola Kostomarov, Mikhaylo Kotsyubinsky, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka.
The literary Ukrainian language is based on the dialect of the Poltava region, with some heavy influence from the dialects spoken in the west, notably Galicia (Halychyna).
www.101languages.net /ukrainian/literature.html   (167 words)

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