St. John`s Eve part 1
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
Born in the Ukraine, Gogol was in many respects the founder of modern Russian literature. His stories of rural life collected under...
History of Bulgaria part 17
“Those same Bulgarians completely destroyed the Avars. Krum asked the Avar prisoners of war, “What do you think your leader and your whole people...
St. John`s Eve part 2
My grandfather (the kingdom of heaven be his! may he eat only wheaten rolls and poppy-seed cakes with honey, in the other world!) Could...
History of Bulgaria part 18
Emerging from the tyranny of the Ottoman Empire, the Bulgarians rejoiced in their new freedom and protected it in battles and wars. They lived...
St. John`s Eve part 3
These people laugh at everything you tell them. Along comes one of them and doesn`t believe in witches! Yes, glory to God that I...
History of Bulgaria part 19
Something else also amazed Ibn Fadlan during his Volga mission: the fact that the Bulgarian ruler rode alone on horseback without guards around the...
St. John`s Eve part 4
My grandfather`s aunt, who kept at that time a tavern, in which Basavriuk (as they called this devil-man) often caroused, said that no consideration...
History of Bulgaria part 4
The long debate about the number of Kan Asparuh`s Bulgarians who arrived in the 7th century has proved unproductive for lack of data. Nevertheless,...
History of Bulgaria part 20
The sentence above is the sacred meaning of the civilization of the Bulgarians. Values, which have been established in the Bulgarians` spiritual history and...
St. John`s Eve part 5
She said that his father had been in Zaporozhe, and had been taken prisoner by the Turks, amongst whom he underwent God only knows...
