Pencho Slaveikov was born on April 27, 1866 in Tryavna.
Pencho Slaveikov was born on April 27, 1866 in Tryavna. He studied in his hometown and in Stara Zagora, the place in 1876 his father was appointed a trainer. He was a direct witness to the burning of Stara Zagora through the Russian-Turkish warfare, the reminiscence of which remained eternally within the thoughts of the long run poet. These “recollections grown so deep within the soul” serve Slaveikov in his work on “Bloody Music”. The Slaveykovi household is barely saved from the fires and gathers in Tarnovo. After the top of the warfare, he moved to Sliven, and in 1879 — once more to Tarnovo, the place Petko Slaveykov revealed the newspapers “Osten” and “Tselokupna Bulgaria”, and Pencho Slaveykov participated of their distribution. On the finish of 1879, the household settled in Sofia, the place Slaveykov studied till 1881. After the introduction of the Powers’ Regime, his father, one of many leaders of the Liberal Social gathering, was arrested, after which he left for Japanese Rumelia.
In January 1884, after an accident, he fell critically sick. Regardless of long-term therapy in Plovdiv, Sofia, Leipzig, Berlin, Paris, the lesions stay for all times – problem strolling (he strikes with a cane), writing with effort and talking with problem. After a three-month wrestle with dying, Slaveikov indulged in gloomy ideas, suffered from bouts of melancholy, from which he sought a remedy in books and creativity. The books of Ivan Turgenev and V. G. Korolenko “Dwelling Relics” and “The Blind Musician” helped him to get out of the extreme disaster. Fighting adversity, Slaveykov steels his will and begins to have a look at struggling as a terrific trainer, elevating the spirit. This concept discovered later creative expression in quite a few works (“Cis moll” and others).
In 1892, the primary editions of the poems “Cis moll”, “Coronary heart of Hearts”, “Reassurances”, “Fryna” appeared within the journal “Thought”. In 1892, Slaveikov went to Leipzig to review philosophy. From Leipzig, he commonly contributed to the journal “Misl” and the journal “Bulgarska sbirka”, created the poems “Ralitsa”, “Boyko”, “Nezadelni”, and different basic epic songs, the primary chapters of the epic “Bloody Music”, lots of the thumbnails in Dream of Happiness. Slaveykov’s curiosity in portray and sculpture led him to the Leipzig Society of Artwork Lovers, of which he was a member. He’s additionally a member of the Leipzig Literary Society; attends theater premieres.
In Leipzig, Slaveikov accomplished (1896) e book 1 of “Epic Songs”, making ready vol. 2, continues to create intimate lyricism, towering over his early lyrical works. (The gathering of poems “Dream of Happiness” is the results of a few years of artistic work on this path). Sends his first crucial texts, revealed in “Zname” journal. Slaveykov returned to Bulgaria in the beginning of 1898. He was appointed a trainer on the Sofia Boys’ Excessive Faculty and was seconded to the Nationwide Library in Sofia. He grew to become an in depth assistant to Dr. Krastyo Krastev in enhancing the journal “Misl” and was on the heart of the “Misl” literary circle. Deputy director (1901–1909) and director (1909–1911) of the Nationwide Library, director of the Nationwide Theater (1908–1909). In September 1908, he undertook a tour of Macedonia with the theater, which in Bitola, Prilep and different settlements become a cultural and public manifestation, impressed by the poet director. Throughout his quick keep on the Nationwide Theater, Slaveikov proved to be an lively, extremely erudite and gifted chief and director. Defending the independence of the theater from incompetent interference, he got here into battle with the Minister of Schooling Nikola Mushanov and left.
In 1909, he was despatched to Moscow to take part within the celebration of the a hundredth anniversary of the beginning of Nikolai Gogol. Along with Prof. Vasil Zlatarski, he introduced the bones of Marin Drinov and his library to Bulgaria. From Russia, Slaveykov wrote a number of letters to Mara Belcheva, through which he offered himself as a patriot and anti-monarchist, humanist and democrat. In the course of the disastrous Slavonic Council (1910), as a zealous Slavophile-democrat, a supporter of the thought of Slavic unity on a purely cultural foundation and on the premise of fraternal consent, Slaveykov protested in an open letter to the council’s delegates and in a speech at a public assembly.
He lived in numerous settlements — Lucerne, Hoflu, Gorat, Goeschenen, Andermatt, Logano. Sturdy psychological oppression worsens his well being. Slaveykov makes a heroic effort to work. On the finish of November, he arrived in Italy. He stayed in Rome the longest — 3 months. In Could 1912, he was on the highway once more – by Florence, to the Engandines, to the mountains, searching for a remedy for physique and soul. On the finish of the month, he arrived within the resort village of Brunate above Lake Como, the place he died on Could 28. On account of his premature dying, the proposal of the Swedish Prof. Al. Jensen, translator of “Blood Music” and his different works, to be awarded the Nobel Prize, was not thought of by the Nobel Committee. He was buried within the village cemetery; his bones had been dropped at Bulgaria in 1921.
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