Chornukhy

Chornukhy stands on the Mnoha in the river country of left-bank Ukraine. Its early history is associated with a stronghold of Kyivan Rus', while seventeenth-century records place it among the estates of the Vyshnevetsky family. In 1648 it became a company town of the Lubny Cossack Regiment. Chornukhy was the birthplace in 1722 of Hryhorii Skovoroda, the philosopher and poet whose later wandering life and teaching made him a distinctive voice in Ukrainian thought. The town thus belonged both to the military organisation of the Hetmanate and to a wider world of learning.