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Lyuben Karavelov 🇧🇬

Любен Каравелов (Known as "Karavelov")
President of Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee, Publicist, Author of Bulgarians of Old
Born 1834-11-01 🇧🇬 Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria
Passed Away 1879-01-21 Ruse, Bulgaria
Lifespan 44 years old
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"Knowledge and books are the keys to freedom; without education, liberty cannot endure."

Archival Overview

Influential writer, publisher, and President of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee (BRCC) in Bucharest whose journals 'Svoboda' and 'Nezavisimost' mobilized the revolutionary generation.

Biographical Record

Lyuben Karavelov was born in the historic mountain town of Koprivshtitsa in 1834. Studying philology and history at Moscow State University, Karavelov was deeply influenced by Russian revolutionary democrats Herzen and Chernyshevsky before settling in Bucharest in 1869.

As head of the BRCC, Karavelov formed an indomitable partnership with Vasil Levski and Hristo Botev, publishing the revolutionary periodicals Svoboda (Freedom) and Nezavisimost (Independence). His novella Bulgarians of Old Times (Bulgari ot staro vreme, 1867) remains a humorous and poignant classic of national revival literature. He lived to witness Bulgaria's liberation in 1878 before succumbing to tuberculosis in Ruse.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Pantheon of National Revival Heroes
Ruse, Bulgaria
GPS: 43.8480, 25.9550
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