Cover «First Day. National Literary and Memorial Museum of H. Skovoroda»

Hryhorii Skovoroda is a thinker and writer of whom every European culture would be proud.

He was born in the village of Chornukhy (Poltava region). He studied at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He preferred personal spiritual freedom, led an ascetic lifestyle, and spent a lot of time traveling.

Among Skovoroda's creative heritage are philosophical works, collections of songs and fables (“Garden of Divine Songs”, “Fables of Kharkiv”). Skovoroda's sayings, mainly devoted to ethics, are very popular: “Love arises from love...”, “Do what you are born to do...", "...care is a movement of the soul, and life is a movement”, etc. Many collections of aphorisms were compiled from them. The author's statement - “The world caught me, but did not catch me” - has become especially relevant today, as the philosopher was not caught by the Russian aggressors either. 

The envelope bears the name of the National Literary and Memorial Museum of H.S. Skovoroda in the village of Skovorodynivka (Kharkiv region), where the thinker lived and worked in recent years.

On May 6, 2022, the Russian military fired a missile at the building, causing it to burn down inside, but authentic items from the museum's collection related to the life and work of Hryhorii Skovoroda were preserved. The statue of the philosopher also survived.