The monument to Grigory Skovoroda, a prominent Ukrainian philosopher, fabulist and poet, author of "Prayers for Kharkiv" and collections "Fables of Kharkiv", was set up in Kharkiv for a reason. Between 1759 and 1769, Gregory Savich lived here and taught at the Kharkiv Collegium, the first higher educational institution of the spiritual direction in the Left Bank of Ukraine.