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Born 1850 in Sopot in a religious and patriarchal family . Pupil of Khristo Botev's father in Kalofer and later of Joakim Gruev in Plovdiv. Emigrant in Romania, 1870-1877. Published poems in Kravelov's paper Svoboda and in Drumev's Periodichesko spisanie, met Petko Slaveikov, Konstatin Velichkov and other emigrants. Was in Sopt during the uprising of 1876. During the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78, Vazov embarked upon half library, half bureaucratic career that will continue for the next tenty years. One of the most prolific Bulgarian writers and poets and the first recognized classic of the new Bulgarian literature. His master piece Pod igoto (Under the Yoke) was crated in the 1880's, and is compared to Tolstoi's Voina i mir. The Epopeia na zabravenite was Vazov's master piece in poetry. Most of the poems in the Epopeia are dedicated to individuals, but they are always depicted against the background of the Bulgarian nation. see also Vazov, Ivan Minchov, Britannica Online |
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