Google Honors Ukrainian Philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda With Google Doodle

Google is running a doodle on its Ukraine homepage today. The doodle is in honor of the 290th birthday of “wandering philosopher” Hryhorii Skovoroda. Skovoroda was not only a philosopher, ...
Google Honors Ukrainian Philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda With Google Doodle
Written by Chris Crum
  • Google is running a doodle on its Ukraine homepage today. The doodle is in honor of the 290th birthday of “wandering philosopher” Hryhorii Skovoroda.

    Skovoroda was not only a philosopher, but a poet, teacher and composer. According to the Wikipedia entry from which Google draws its Knowledge Graph result for him, he was so important to Russian culture that he is often referred to as the Russian Socrates.

    Google had this to say bout the doodle on Twitter:

    Here’s a portrait of Skovoroda, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons:

    Skovoroda

    More Google Doodles here.

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