Отново за „Върви, народе възродени...“
Once more on the poem “Cyril and Methodius” by Stoyan Mihaylovsky

Summary/Abstract: The poem “Cyril and Methodius”, more commonly known as “Varvi, Narode Vazrodeni…” was written in 1892 by Stoyan Mihaylovsky in Ruse. Before starting work as an Associate Professor of Literature at Sofia University “St. Clement of Ohrid”, he used to teach at the high school in Ruse, which is exactly where, on 15 April he wrote the fourteen verses and sent them to Dr. Krastev. The later then published them in book no. 9–10 of the “Misal” magazine.The text of the hymn may seem pretty familiar to us, and maybe exactly because of this, we do not pay enough attention to the connotation of the im ages of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in it. And the connotation is rich and intentional. The current research aims at trying to decode it and find out why exactly the images of the two first teachers are always a support in the Bulgarian mentality.

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