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Hristo Botev
Hristo Botev, born Hristo Botyov Petkov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, poet and journalist. He participated in the Bulgarian revolutionary movement as a member of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. Botev is honoured in Bulgaria.
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Born 25 December 1847 · Died 20 May 1876 · Q347118
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2022· 1 entry
Novinite: Interesting Facts from the Life of Bulgarian Revolutionary and Poet Hristo Botev
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2020· 1 entry
Novinite: Bulgarians Mark 172 Years since the Birth of Hristo Botev
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1939· 1 entry
A monument in his honour was placed in Okolchitsa, with a Russian Orthodox cross at its top, with the cross being replaced with a pentagram from 1947 to 1991
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1926· 1 entry
By Boyan Penev, professor of literary history, who relied on Stoyanov's first biography about Botev, which depicted Botev as having died at Vola
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1922· 1 entry
Left-wing literary critic Georgi Tsanev claimed that Botev was "a defender of the slaves, trumpeter of the revolution, our first minstrel of communism"
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1901· 1 entry
A Bulgarian government commission examined the evidence from witnesses and concluded that Botev had died at Okolchitsa
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1891· 1 entry
Vazov expressed concern that Botev "enjoys a kind of absolute cult, built regrettably upon hot patriotic feeling and not upon a mature and sober estimation of his merits"
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1890· 1 entry
In the presence of Bulgarian prince Ferdinand, where the first such commemoration took place
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1885· 1 entry
A commemoration committee was founded on the anniversary of Botev's death on 20 May/1 June
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1877· 1 entry
This house was destroyed during the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War, but in the 1940s it was rebuilt and turned into the Hristo Botev National Museum.
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1876· 1 entry
Died 1876-05-20.
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1875· 5 entries
Botev read the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, such as the Manifesto of the Communist Party and the first volume of Capital in Russian translation
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Karavelov, already quite ill, stepped down as president of BRCC, and Botev was elected as the new president
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Inspired Botev and Stambolov to think that a rebellion should start soon in Ottoman Bulgaria as well
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Co-authored his one and only poetry book Songs and Poems by Botev and Stambolov (Bulgarian: Песни и стихотворения от Ботьова и Стамболова), along with his close associate Bulgarian revolutionary poet and future politi
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Botev considered the possible participation of Turks in the revolutionary movement
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1873· 1 entry
Also edited the satirical newspaper "Alarm clock" (Budilnik), where he published a number of feuilletons, targeting those wealthy Bulgarians who did not take part in the revolutionary movement
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1870· 1 entry
Which begins with "Tell me, tell me, o unhappy people, Who lulls you in the cradle of slavery
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1867· 1 entry
Botev replaced his ill father as a teacher, introducing subjects such as geography, history and civil law
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1864· 1 entry
Left the boarding school and began to live independently in various lodgings
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1858· 1 entry
Petkov accused the administration of the Karlovo district of embezzling money that had been bequeathed to the school and then returned to Kalofer
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1854· 1 entry
His father failed to reach an agreement with the Kalofer district about his salary and moved to Karlovo
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1847· 1 entry
Born 1847-12-25.
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