Vasil Levski

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  • Nikolay Genchev
  • Author:  Nikolay Genchev
  • Year: 11-02-2011
  • Availability:  Out Of Stock
  • Product Code:  655-01
  • SKU: 03.0012
  • ISBN: 978-954-321-806-6
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Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and is a national hero of Bulgaria today. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologized and strategized a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule. Levski founded the Internal Revolutionary Organisation and sought to foment a nationwide uprising through a network of secret regional committees.

Born in the Sub-Balkan town of Karlovo to middle-class parents, Levski became an Orthodox monk before emigrating to join the two Bulgarian Legions in Serbia and other Bulgarian revolutionary groups. Abroad, he acquired the nickname Levski, "Lionlike". After working as a teacher in Bulgarian lands, he propagated his views and developed the concept of his Bulgaria-based revolutionary organization, an innovative idea that superseded the foreign-based detachment strategy of the past. In Romania, Levski helped institute the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee, composed of Bulgarian expatriates. During his tours of Bulgaria, Levski established a wide network of insurrectionary committees. Ottoman authorities, however, captured him at an inn near Lovech and executed him by hanging in Sofia.

Levski looked beyond the act of liberation: he envisioned a "pure and sacred" Bulgarian republic of ethnic and religious equality. His concepts have been described as a struggle for human rights, inspired by the progressive liberalism of the French Revolution and 19th-century Western European society. Levski is commemorated with monuments in Bulgaria and Serbia, and numerous national institutions bear his name. In 2007, he topped a nationwide television poll as the all-time greatest Bulgarian.

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Nikolay Genchev

Nikolay Genchev

Nikolay Genchev (1931-2000) is a Bulgarian historian, member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Rector of Sofia University (1989-1993). Winner of the International Herder Award (1989). Author of do... Read more

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Tags: Historical Figures, Bulgarian History, Biographies & Autobiographies, Bulgarian Authors, Theory of Literature, Essays, Bulgarian Renaissance

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Year 11-02-2011
Pages 248
Size 140/215 мм
Weight 0.425 kg
Cover Type Hardcover
Genre Historical Figures, Bulgarian History, Biographies & Autobiographies, Bulgarian Authors, Theory of Literature, Essays, Bulgarian Renaissance

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