Райна Кацарова и нейният архивен фонд през погледа на специалиста
Raina Katsarova and her Archive Fund Through the Eyes of the Specialist

Summary/Abstract: In the branch office of the Scientific Fund of the Institute for Art Studies at the BAS, the share of Raina Katsarova’s personal fund is considerable. Her terrain mate­ rials are arranged in 55 folders containing collections of about 400 settlements. Usually each of these collections has their own inventory number. Some inventory numbers, however, contain musical folklore from more settlements, therefore the real number of the settlement collections is bigger. The archive units in Katsarova’s fund are over 10 000 and represent folklore from all over Bulgaria; from Macedonia, Moldavia and the Ukraine; songs, hora and customs of settlers from Aegian Thrace (the regions of Drama and Syar, recorded in the region of Nevrokop; Odrin, Lozengrad and Malgar, recorded in North-eastern Bulgaria). In North-eastern Bulgaria folklore of settlers from Macedonia (Vardar and Kostur), Asia Minor and North Dobrudja (Kjustendja and Tulcha) was recorded. Among the best-studied settlements by Raina Katsarova were those in the region of Nevrokop (South-western Bulgaria); the region of Karlovo and Kazanluk (Sredna Gora); Velingrad and Devin (the Rhodopes); the regions of Varna, Provadia and Silistra (North­ eastern Bulgaria); the regions of Loukovit, Teteven, Vratsa and Montana (North-western Bulgaria); the regions of Veliko Tirnovo, Sevlievo and Lovech (Middle North Bulgaria); Pernik and Samokov (Middle Western Bulgaria); Bourgas and Yambol (South-Eastern Bulgaria). Most of the terrain materials was submitted to the Archive by Raina Katsarova while she was still working as a research worker at the Institute of Music of that time. Additionally her archive fund was enriched in 1989 with the materials presented by her son Georgi Kukudov, kept in the family archive until then.

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