Владимир Друмев Върбанов – Ботевият четник с неспокоен дух
Vladimir Drumev Varbanov – the Revolutionary with a Sleepless Spirit in Botev’s Armed Company

Author(s): Veselina Beleva
Subject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age, 19th Century
Published by: Център за стопанско-исторически изследвания
Keywords: Vladimir Drumev Varbanov; memory; personal history; artefacts; portraying
Summary/Abstract: This article tries to represent the image of Vladimir Drumev Varbanov, the revolutionary in Botev's armed company, an Isperih resident with a sleepless spirit, avoiding the mythologising characteristic of the era of the Bulgarian revival: ‘revivalist – rebel’, ‘sleep–wakefulness’, ‘disgrace – glory’. Therefore, the chosen research approaches are anthropological and comparative: looking into history through memory, personal history, and what has been preserved as artefacts in a Bulgarian museum – the Historical Museum – Isperih. As artefacts and people are witnesses of time through which history becomes more tangible, the article compares the (mis)coincidence between memory and artefact without observing the chronological principle in portraying one of the most interesting personalities who lived in Isperih. The memory and the artefact look at each other to reconcile the ‘revivalist’ and the ‘rebel’.

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