NEW VAZOVS’ FAMILY CHRONICLES. UNKNOWN PAGES ABOUT VAZOV’S FAMILY MEMBERS WITH THE CZECH PRESIDENT TOMAS MASARYK Cover Image

НОВИ ХРОНИКИ НА ВАЗОВИЯ РОД. НЕИЗВЕСТНИ СТРАНИЦИ ЗА ОБЩУВАНЕТО НА ВАЗОВИ С ПЪРВИЯ ЧЕШКИ ПРЕЗИДЕНТ ТОМАШ МАСАРИК
NEW VAZOVS’ FAMILY CHRONICLES. UNKNOWN PAGES ABOUT VAZOV’S FAMILY MEMBERS WITH THE CZECH PRESIDENT TOMAS MASARYK

Author(s): Katya Zografova
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: Czech reciprocity; president-democrat; letter; documentary story; national memory

Summary/Abstract: This text describes contacts of the philosopher, politician, state builder and first president of the Czech Republic Tomas Masaryk with Bulgarian public figures and intellectuals, focusing its attention on Boris Vazov and his family members Elizaveta, Sabina and Elka from the time when he was Minister Plenipotentiary of Czechoslovakia. An unknown “page” of Bulgarian-Czech reciprocated feelings is the newly discovered letter of Binka Vazova, published here and presenting the second meeting (in 1929) of the Vazovs with the family of President Masaryk at Lany summer palace. This letter can be named a documentary artistic story because it combines photographic punctuality and completion with the emotionality of the youth and their inherent sense of humor. Masaryk’s charisma swayed Binka Vazova who wrote a deeply moving article on the occasion of the death of Masaryk in 1937. Vazov’s language of Boris and Binka Vazov is a memory about the great and charming figure of the Bulgarians’ friend Tomas Masaryk.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 303-316
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian
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