Slaveikov biography of albert
Albert Long was an American Methodist pastor who devoted much of his life preaching in the Balkans..
Intense Literature 4: Petko and Pencho Slaveykov - like father, like son
From the modern Bulgarian translation of the Bible to the threshold of the Nobel Prize
In Bulgarian literature and culture the most famous father and son are indeed Petko and Pencho Slaveykov.
They both had talent and mission, and the story of ¬this outstanding family is quite telling of how Bulgarian poetry and its cultural scene changed so fast in the span of a single generation.
Petko Slaveykov (1827-1895) came from a very modest background, his father was a coppersmith, but Petko had a wealth of talented genes, and he easily changed his surname into Slaveykov (derivative from nightingale).
Pencho Petkov Slaveykov (Bulgarian: Пенчо Петков Славейков) was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal ("Thought") circle.
This youthful self-confidence was not for nothing, because this energetic guy soon emerged as one of the most outstanding Bulgarian brainworkers of the National Revival. Petko Slaveykov lived in various, mostly Eastern Bulgarian towns, and for a while also moved to Constantinople.
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