БЪЛГАРСКИТЕ ПЕДАГОЗИ ТОЛСТОИСТИ И ТЕХНИТЕ МЕЖДУНАРОДНИ КОНТАКТИ ПРЕЗ 20-ТЕ – 40-ТЕ ГОДИНИ НА ХХ ВЕК
THE BULGARIAN TOLSTOIST TEACHERS AND THEIR INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS IN THE 1920s - 1940s

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the relations of the Bulgarian Tolstoy pedagogues in the 1920s - 1940s: prof. Dimitar Katsarov, Iliya Enchev, Nikola Venetov /Nikola Antonov Dimov/, Ana Tsanova, Zheni Bozhilova-Pateva - with related communities from different countries of the world: - Communard Tolstoists from Russia; - vegetarians from Germany; - Doukhobors from Canada; - pacifists from Switzerland and India. The leading ideas that create these peculiar connections are: - for free education at school;, - for living in a peaceful society, denying war and violence; - for joint cultivation of the land in cooperatives, - for moral and material support of co-creators. A historical-pedagogical study of state and personal archives in different cities of Bulgaria was carried out. Interviewed descendants of Bulgarian Tolstoy pedagogues. As a result of the retrospective analysis, the following conclusions are drawn: Tolstoy pedagogues in Bulgaria provide international support for refusals from military service and receive similar support from their co-thinkers abroad. They share the visions of a new school of educational reformers from Europe, Asia and America. Tolstoists have a certain role in building a united front against militarism and war both in Bulgaria and abroad. The Bulgarian followers of Tolstoy are advocates for a peaceful working life and through the farm in Mechkur they clearly show their like-minded people from abroad how to work cooperatively and rely on fraternal mutual aid. The strongest connections are between Bulgarian and Russian Tolstoy pedagogues /Evgeniy Ivanovich Popov, Anna Malorod, brothers Gustav and Gunter Turk/, which is evident from the periodical press with a similar ideological orientation.

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