Писмата на Иван Брожка до Константин Иречек. Интересен извор за новата българска история
Ivan Brozhka’s Letters to Konstantin Irechek. An Interesting Source for Modern Bulgarian History

Summary/Abstract: In the personal archival collection of Konstantin Irechek (Jireček), which is stored in the Scien- tific Archive of the BAS, there are 40 letters and postcards, handwritten and sent by Ivan (Jan) Brozhka (Brožka) to Irechek. The Czech Brozhka (1853–1927), a teacher of Latin at Sofia high schools for a long time, also considered the founder of classical philology in Bulgaria, was an active assistant to Irechek in various cultural and educational endeavours immediately after the Liberation. The letters cover the period from 1885 to 1900 and have great informative value: they contain information about all the most important events that happened not only in Sofia, where Brozhka settled, but also all over the country. The significance of these notices doesn´t lie in their uniqueness, it mainly consists in the fact that they present moments of the modern Bulgarian history through the eyes of a foreigner who had already begun to perceive Bulgaria as his second homeland. Here I present one of the most interesting letters in translation – dated November 10/22, 1885, describing the stormy events of the first week of the Serbo-Bulgarian War – both at the front and in Sofia.

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