Поп Минчо Кънчев за срещата си с Петко войвода
Priest Mincho Kunchev about His Meeting with Petko Voivoda

Summary/Abstract: The name of Priest Mincho Kunchev, one of the distinguished figures of the Bulgarian National Revival, became known about a decade ago when the first part of his remarkable manuscript “Vidritsa” was published. Priest Mincho Kunchev’s interest in the leaders of units of the haidouk and rebel period of the Bulgarian National Liberation movement was not accidental. To many of them he devoted considerable space in his work, the second part of which is to be published shortly. The meeting between Priest Mincho Kunchev and Petko Voivoda took place in Haskovo in the spring of 1879. Although brief, Priest Mincho Kunchev noted it in his manuscript which indicates that he placed Petko Voivoda along the other leaders of rebel units – Hadji Dimiter, Stefan Karadja, Panayot Hitov, Filip Totyu and others. Feeling that what he wrote about their brief meeting would not satisfy the future readers, Priest Mincho Kunchev gave an extensive historico-archaeographic and bibliographic information about the captain which took 15 pages in the “brief notes” appended to the manuscript. In these short “historical background notes” Priest Mincho Kunchev selected the most valuable and interesting in what had to that moment been published about the legendary voivoda, giving a comparatively full, accurate and convincing notion of the tireless fighter for freedom Petko Voivoda.

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