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Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov

Bulgarian revolutionary and writer
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Born:
1834, Koprivshtitsa, Rumelia [now in Bulgaria]
Died:
Jan. 21, 1879, Ruse, Bulg. (aged 45)
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Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov (born 1834, Koprivshtitsa, Rumelia [now in Bulgaria]—died Jan. 21, 1879, Ruse, Bulg.) was a Bulgarian writer and revolutionary who contributed to the national reawakening of Bulgaria. Emigrating to Russia at 23, Karavelov studied ethnography in Moscow, where he was greatly influenced by Russian radical thought, and soon began writing political polemics and tales and studies of his homeland for various periodicals. Because his safety was threatened by his revolutionary contacts, he moved to Serbia (1867) but was shortly expelled for collaborating with the Serbian liberal opposition. Later, moving to Bucharest, he took up the Bulgarian revolutionary cause ...(100 of 144 words)

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