Bulgaria Marks 200 Years from the Birth of Great Bulgarian Revolutionary Georgi Rakovski

Today Bulgaria celebrates the birth of Geori Rakovski but the entire 2021 is devoted to his name.

It is 200 years since the birth of the ideologue, organizer and leader of the national liberation movement in Bulgaria and 40 years since the construction of the Pantheon of the revolutionary in his hometown.

Georgi Stoykov Rakovski was born in Kotel. His childhood years were spent in his hometown. He was born in wealthy family and could have an easy life but chose otherwise. Throughout his entire life, Rakovski was devoted to the revolution and liberation of Bulgarian people.

 He created the "First Bulgarian Legion", drew up three plans for the Bulgarian liberation, traveled all over Europe spoke several languages ​​and was highly educated.

His interest in history was exceptional because he claimed that a people who cannot know themselves and their own background cannot do anything important. Over the years, Rakovski worked as a lawyer, developed a business with the redemption of tax collection, wrote poems, organized the first Bulgarian military unit while the country was still under Ottoman rule.

  "He was practically the first Bulgarian spy, because together with his associates, using his acquaintance with Ottoman dignitaries, he managed to be appointed chief translator of the Turkish Danube Army. He used this post to create new centres of the resistance movement and to supply the Russians with intel information" says the curator of Rakovski's museum in his home town Kotel.

 Being in exile, in addition to being an avid historian, ethnographer, philologist, he also proved to be an exceptional publicist. In his short life he managed to edit and publish 4 newspapers.

Rakovkski wrote novels and poems  the most famous of...