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Ivan Vazov

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Ivan Vazov


Born
in Sopot, Bulgaria
June 27, 1850

Died
September 22, 1921

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Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria (then part of the Ottoman Empire). The works of Ivan Vazov reveal two historical epochs - the Bulgarian Renaissance and the Post-Liberation (from Ottoman Empire rule) epoch. Ivan Vazov holds the highest honorary title of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Academician. He acted as Education and People Enlightenment Minister from September 7, 1897 until January 30th, 1899, representing the People's Party.

Vazov was probably heavily influenced by Botev, who was the ideological leader of the Bulgarian revolutionary movement. He started writing his famous poems
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Една българка

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Дядо Йоцо гледа

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4.53 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 1967
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Стихотворения

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3.94 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions
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Апостолът в премеждие

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Quotes by Ivan Vazov  (?)
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“The sword does not strike the bowed head,”
Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“All right, Fratio, you try, then—an ox is bound by the horns, but a man by his word.”
Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“Yes, a glorious Czech name, and not unfitting for you; you’re a real Brzobegounek; haven’t you gone over half the Balkan Peninsula on foot ? So, then, Dobri Mouratliski, from tomorrow you will be Pan Yaroslav Brzobegounek, an Austrian Czech, born with a photographic apparatus on his back!”
Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

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January 2019 Old School Poll

 
  96 votes, 29.9%

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 1837, 240 pages
 
  90 votes, 28.0%

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous -1750, 120 pages
 
  73 votes, 22.7%

Adam Bede by George Eliot 1859, 624 pages
 
  31 votes, 9.7%

 
  24 votes, 7.5%

Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov 1893, 462 pages
 
  7 votes, 2.2%

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