On the third and last day of the conference (November 29), there was yet another scandal. This time Katardzhiev was absent but the "provocateur" was surprisingly
Rastislav Terzioski. Terzioski is a traditional archival researcher - most of the times he simply publishes the document with almost no interpretation, and that is what he did also at the conference. (Otherwise, Terzioski deals mostly with Russia, the Soviet Union, the Komintern and the Macedonian question but also with the Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia during WWII. Btw, Brown in his book has criticized his interpretation of the "denationalization" of Macedonians by the Bulgarian authorities and suggests that it was rather a question of a "re-nationalization"). Terzioski said that he found in Russian archives a file of documents written by Misirkov (letters, memoranda, notes addressed to the Russian Foreign Ministry etc. dedicated to the "resolution" of the Macedonian question). These documents were written in 1914 and were never published. Terzioski stated that they were in sharp contradiction with what the mainstream Macedonian science considers to be the positions of Misirkov and began reading excerpts from them. Here is what I succeeded to note (otherwise Terzioski spoke for about quarter an hour and I did not manage to put down on paper some of the things): in a letter to the Russian foreign minister Misirkov declared himself a "Macedonian Bulgarian", spoke of the "undoubtedly Bulgarian population of Macedonia", of his own "Bulgarian descent", of the "Bulgarian people in Macedonia". He likewise expressed his frustration about the failure of San-Stefano Bulgaria, stated that Macedonia was an "authentic Bulgarian land", that "the Bulgarian people in Macedonia were oppressed by the Serbs", that there were "three Bulgarian lands - North Bulgaria (or directly Moesia - here I am not sure), Thrace and Macedonia. Misirkov likewise said that 2.500.000 "Bulgarians" were subjugated, accused Russia of having separated Macedonia from Bulgaria and felt sorry for that. He reiterated that "the thesis of Bulgarian national rights over Macedonia" is "beyond any doubt" justified.
In the same time, Misirkov criticized the Serbian propaganda that - according to him -was quite active in Russia. He stated that, after the Bucharest treaty, 2 million "Bulgarians in Macedonia" were subjugated by the Serbs. He demanded a "united ethnographic Bulgaria with the whole of Macedonia, Dobrudzha, East Thrace". Misirkov asserted that Serbia conquered "purely Bulgarian lands" while the Greeks "have stolen Salonica from the Bulgarians". Here, Terzioski stated that "Misirkov had - so to say - some purely racist opinions about the Serbs". According to Terzioski, Misirkov labeled the Serbs as "Šumadija shepherds", asserted that Serbia was created by "the pig merchant Karadjordje", that Serbia was "the only responsible for the serfdom of the Macedonian Bulgarians". He also spoke of some "characteristic trait" of "the Serbian shepherds as king-killers". Misirkov affirmed that they subdued "a centenary Bulgarian culture in Macedonia". He appealed for the stopping of the Serbian assimilation of "Bulgarian population in Macedonia", spoke of the "Bulgarian cultural superiority to the Serbs", insisted on the unification of "Bulgarian Macedonia to Bulgaria" and said that there was a risk that the "Bulgarians from Macedonia" quit their land.
In other documents, according to Terzioski, Misirkov opposed the theory of Cvijic about the "floating mass" of "Macedonian Slavs". He argued that the Slavic population of Macedonia was not "a formless paste" but a "well baked Bulgarian bread" which belongs to Bulgaria. In another letter from 1914, Misirkov said that "Macedonians means only Macedonian Bulgarians" and accused the Russian consul Rotskovskiy that, under Serbian influence, considered the Macedonian population as simply "Slavic". He asserted that this was "a misconception due to Serbian influence". Misirkov also expressed his displeasure concerning the "divided" in the Balkan wars Bulgaria. Finally, Terzioski "thanked" for the attention and said that in Bulgaria Kosta Carnushanov has well described all the "zigzags" of Misirkov's thoughts. He said that in Macedonia also appeared such data and indirectly accused Ristovski of hiding the truth as "the official science only thinks that there is no place for such dilemmas". In fact, on the previous day, the Polish slavist Jolanta Sujecka cited one of the articles of Misirkov after WWI where he claims also a Bulgarian identity but Ristovski said that Misirkov "had to publish such things" because of the difficult political situation in Bulgaria and the everyday killings of Macedonians in Sofia's streets. Terzioski said "OK, but what to do with this documents that date back to 1914?"
Needless to say, the audience was even more shocked than by Katardzhiev's speech the previous day. Some of the participants tried to find some response to Terzioski's data but they were quite a caricature. One of them (Jovan Korubin) even recommended a lesser reference to historical documents. Blazhe Ristovski hardly found an answer either. He said that Misirkov's work on the Morava dialect was falsified by some Bulgarian scientist when it was published in Sofia (this is something he was repeating since decades - in the original thesis of Misirkov in Russia, it is a question of "the so-called Bulgarians" while in Sofia it was published only as "Bulgarians"). Ironically, Ristovski promised that he was going to publish documents like those of Terzioski in "Collected Works" of Misirkov and simply stated that "all of this is well-known". Apparently, he knew very well the letters cited by Terzioski - undoubtedly, he had also found them in the Russian archives - but, so far, never published them. Finally, Ritovski tried to "explain" the general idea of Misirkov: the latter wanted firstly to save the integrity of Macedonia and the unification with Bulgaria was the only way. After that, Macedonia could have gained its independence and, according to Ristovski, this was the long-term project of Misirkov.