MACEDONIANS: VANGUARD OF THE BULGARIAN NATIONAL REVIVAL
THE MILADINOV BROTHERS' - "BULGARSKI NARODNI PESNI"
SKOPJE FALSIFIES THE MILADINOVS' BROTHERS BOOK TITLE
BLAZHE KONESKI FALSIFIES "BULGARSKI NARODNI PESNI"
DIMITAR MILADINOV
KONSTANTIN MILADINOVKonstantin shows his
Bulgarian pride in GRK I BLGARIN
KUZMAN SHAPKAREV 1834-1909
undoubtedly the greatest collector and publisher of ethnographic material in Vardar Macedonia. Born in the city of Ohrid, he spent some 30 years (1855-84) as a teacher in this part of Macedonia. He published hundreds of articles and monographs on the dialects and folklore. Read about his fierce Bulgarian patriotism in FAITH AND NATIONALITY.
Read his AUTOBIOGRAPHY
GRIGOR PURLICHEV 1830-1893
Born in Ohrid and educated in Greece. In 1860 he won first prize in a Greek national poetry competition at Athens University for his poem O Armatolos (The Sirdar). Purlichev refused Greek offers of scholarships to Oxford and Berlin and instead chose to return to Ohrid, dedicating his life to oppose the assimilatory policies of the Greek Phanariots towards his Bulgarian people. Undoubtedly, it was Purlichev's own AUTOBIOGRAPHY which had the greatest impact on the Bulgarian people, as it described their spiritual and political oppression.
YOAKIM KURCHOVSKY 1750-1820
Wrote the first ever books in the "SIMPLE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE",
rather than "CHURCH SLAVONIC", so that the common people could understand them.