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