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 == Skovoroda - national autoidentification == 

 I didn't find in Skovoroda's works that he identified himself as Ukrainian. According to many sources ""Ukrainians"" as the name of nationality was first time used in literature in Hrushevskyi's History of Ukraine-Rus (1904). The Ukrainian state didn't exist when Skorovoda was wrote his works. First Ukrainian state was created in 1917. Skorovoda was born on the territory of today's Eastern Ukraine - it does not mean that he was Ukrainian.   "