Иван Тодоров Пулиев (Горан) между историографската недостатъчност, подценяването и стигматизирането

Author(s): Ivaylo Naydenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

This article aims to present Ivan Todorov Puliev (Goran)’s personality and especially his mercantile activities. The problem of his relations with Evlogi Georgiev and his brother Nicholas T. Puliev is also concerned. The analyzed sources concerning the activities of Ivan T. Puliev give me reason to conclude that he is а contradictory and interesting person that left visible trace in the history of the Bulgarian National Revival.

Московска българска дружина

Author(s): Marieta Kozhuharova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The article presents the activity of the so-called Bulgarian group in Moscow, founded by some Bulgarian students in the end of 50’s of XIX century. On the basis of available documents and biographical information about the Bulgarian students in Moscow are clarified the names of the persons-organizers of this group. According to the conducted analysis of the program, created by the group, on the basis of its activity and the thematically differentiating of the problems, placed in journal “Bratski trud”, published by the participants, two facts are conclude: 1) there is accordance between targets in the program and their implementation; 2) participants develop successful propaganda campaign in Russia.

Индустрията и музейното пространство (поглед към съвременния музей)

Author(s): Mira Markova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The article presents Industry Museum in Gabrovo as an example for innovations in contemporary museum space and museum conceptions. The historical perspective in town development is presented through the focus of industry. The author searches for wider conclusions about society development during different periods in the XX century. A new way for forming historical point of view was presented. The author stays on the conception that the contemporary museum must be cultural institution which creates cultural tendencies and cultural policies.

Българските общности в Северна Америка – традиции и съвременност

Author(s): Koyanka Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The article examines the processes of the development of the Bulgarian communities in North America. The main focus is on the history and the current state of the Bulgarian organizations, schools, media contributing to the preservation of the Bulgarian culture and traditions overseas.

Залезът на средновековна България

Author(s): Krasimira Yordanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The Decline of Medieval Bulgaria

Естетика Італійського ренесансу в жіночій аристократичній зачісці

Author(s): Oksana Anatoliyivna Minenko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 41/2018

The purpose of the article is to determine the influence of the aesthetic ideals of the Italian Renaissance on the formation and stylistic diversity of aristocratic women's hairstyles. The methodology of the study consists of the principles of objectivity, historicism, multifactor, systemicity, complexity, and pluralism; and to achieve the goal methods used: problem chronological, concrete-historical, statistical, descriptive, logical-analytical. Scientific novelty. An art-study analysis of the formation of the style of women's aristocratic hairstyles in Italy in the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries was conducted in the context of Renaissance aesthetics, based on the study of rare sources and archival materials; The role of well-known Italian aristocrats, legislators of the Isabella and Beatrice d'Este, Bianchi Maria Sforza, Batista Sforza, Maddaleni Doni, Eleonora of Toledo, Lucia Albani Avogadro, and others are researched in the process of creating and promoting new styles of women's hairstyles. Conclusions. Based on the study of the specifics of the creation and finishing of aristocratic female hairstyles of the Italian Renaissance, it has been proved that their stylistic and formative features are one aspect of the modification of the human body in accordance with the humanistic views and aesthetic ideals of the Renaissance; It was found that a female hairstyle in the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries was a symbol of individual and group identity.

Към читателя

Author(s): Nadya Kantareva-Baruh / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Икономика, търговия и градски живот в лангобардска и византийска Южна Италия (X – XI в.)

Author(s): Georgi Dimov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

At the beginning of the 11th century, in the aftermath of the long rule of the Macedonian dynasty (867 – 1056), the Byzantine Empire was going through a political, cultural and economic upsurge. After winning victories over Bulgarians, Arabs, Georgians and Armenians the Empire extended its borders by consolidating many of its former territories. At that time city life in the Byzantine Empire was making headway at a scale unknown since late Antiquity. A century later some Norman adventurers, on pilgrimage to Monte Sant’ Angelo – Gargano, lent their swords in 1017 to the Lombard cities of Apulia against the Byzantines. From 1016 to 1030 the Normans were pure mercenaries, serving either Byzantine or Lombard. In the second half of 11th century their leaders joined in the organized attempt to wrest Apulia from the Byzantines, who had lost most of that province by 1040. Bari was captured by the Normans in April 1071, and Byzantine authority was finally terminated in Italy, five centuries after the conquest of Justinian I.

Представата за склави и тюрки в „Стратегикона“ на Псевдомаврикий

Author(s): Ivan Stoyanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The purpose of the current study is to examine Maurice’ Strategikon – its genre specifics and the way they affect the nature of the information regarding the state and social evolution of the various barbarous people scattered through the Eurasian Barbaricum. We will focus mainly on the differences and similarities in the images of the nomads – Turks and Avars, and the sedentary Sclavs, living both on the border regions of the Roman Empire. We shall distinguish the sustainable antique topoi form those specific and objective characteristics – resulting from the development of the Roman-Barbarian relations from the late fifth century, which formed the image of the other in the minds of the Romans through the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

Бележки върху демографската, религиозната и стопанската история на селищата по поречието на Въча през последната четвърт на XV – XVI в.

Author(s): Damian Borisov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

This study aims to trace in detail the development of demographic and religious processes in the settlements along the river Vacha during the last quarter of the 15th century – 16th century using data from Ottoman registers.

Войните на Волжка България с монголите

Author(s): Krasimir Krustev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

For many centuries, the Volga Bulgarians maintained close economic, cultural and religious ties with Muslim countries and especially with the peoples of Central Asia. Traditionally, relations between them were good and clashes were rare. But after the Battle of the Kalka River (1223), Mongolians turned against Volga Bulgaria. The first attack was repulsed, but after a long fight, Volga Bulgaria was conquered in 1236 by the Mongols and ceased to exist as an independent state.

Домът на българската възрожденска книга: Христо-Дановият музей в Пловдив

Author(s): Vera Boneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The article reveals main facts of the historical development of the Museum of Bulgarian book publishing (second half of 19th and early 20th century) founded in the city of Plovdiv by the end of 1960s. The permanent exhibition was inaugurated at 22nd of May 1975 in the house of the founder of our national typography – Hristo Gruev Danov (1828 – 1911). The key events, related to emergence and evolution of publishing business were shown in six exhibition halls, via artifacts, documents, pictures, etc. The old Revival house, in which the Museum was arranged, deserves a special attention. It combines the vision of a typical medieval tower and the artistry of а Renaissance edifice. Nowadays, the Museum of typography is a pleasing cultural topos located just to the entrance of the Old town and very close to the Orthodox cathedral. It attracts a lot of visitors, mainly Bulgarians, who are inspired by intellectual dignity of Revival period and by the personal magnetism of the popular originator of our national typography – Hristo Gruev Danov.

Българските училища в чужбина – историко-географско изследване

Author(s): Boian Koulov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

At the beginning of the 21st century, about 10% of the schools, teaching Bulgarian language, history, geography and culture, are outside Bulgarian boundaries and are located on all continents that are permanently populated. The subject of this study is to reveal the attitude of the Bulgarian state to these new phenomena, to the increasing number of schools abroad that teach Bulgarian language and culture.

90 години Старозагорска опера и 70 години от одържавяването й

Author(s): Emiliya Zhunich / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

90 years ago a group of enthusiasts form an opera ensemble, as it occurs in many other localities. And if after one or two titles everything finishes mainly because of lack of funding, exactly in that consists the heroism of citizens of Stara Zagora: the only amateur ensemble which exists 21 years long, and after that it is nationalized in 1946. The nationalization is a kind of recognition but this leads to shocks. In 1967 lays the beginnings of the annually organized Festival of the Opera and Ballet Arts – a mirror of the achievements in the area of music and performing arts. Because of a conflagration end of 1991 the ensemble left homeless. In 2015 the State Operа Stara Zagora celebrates its 90th anniversary, and on the 1st of April 2016 it is 70 years since its nationalization.

Испански дипломатически документи за Османската империя и Българите (ХVІІІ – ХІХ в.)

Author(s): Penka Danova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

Artistic Memorialization of the Roma Holocaust in Romania

Author(s): Caterina Preda / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

Although the Roma Holocaust in Romania has been documented, and there is an officialpolicy to recall this historical fact, its memory is marginal in contemporary Romaniansociety. This article analyzes four recent examples of art of memorialization of the RomaHolocaust in Romania and argues these artistic forms of memory play an important role inthe building of a more comprehensive public memory of the Porrajmos. The analysis usesan interdisciplinary approach, which combines theoretical resources that belong to the studyof cultural memory with a focus on artistic memory, and the analysis of the relationshipbetween art, politics, and memory. The examples of artistic memorialization have two aims:to render visible the historical trauma through the use of testimonies of the survivors and toprovide further documentary sources of this historical trauma.

МОТИВЪТ „НЕВЕСТА ЦЕЛУВА РЪКА“ В КАРТИНИТЕ НА ВЛАДИМИР ДИМИТРОВ-МАЙСТОРА

Author(s): Lalka Todorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The works of Vladimir Dimitrov – The Master are emblematic and undoubtedly distinguishable due to the artist’s purposeful and long-lasting efforts to create an art that was national in spirit and form. The Master dedicated his art to the recreation of virtues and moral purity of the people into tints and shapes. The artist turned to key moments in the life of Bulgarians and applies to them an iconic scale, aiming to achieve visually the emanation of the Bulgarian spirit. Highly impressive and memorable are his numerous figure compositions with singing women harvesters, maidens with fruit and flowers, wedding guests, mothers with children, male harvesters, etc., which still impress the diverse public and are perceived as a symbol of the Bulgarian mentality. Distinctive for The Master is the search for the most effective impression by developing cycles of a given motif.The Wedding cycle is chosen in view of the high importance of this festive occasion for the patriarchal morality of Bulgaria and the Balkans. The Bride Kisses Hand motif attracted the painter with its symbolism. The artist has created various sketches and paintings focusing on the search for the most characteristic moment, image, gesture and their rendition to an iconic message. In this direction of search and work idealisation is the artist’s deliberate tool to awaken nostalgia for the soul’s purity in the minds of his contemporaries and to leave to the generations a memory about what was and what would be in order to preserve the true identity of Bulgarians, as well as the soul’s demand for purity, respect, hierarchy and harmonious community.The artistic task that the painter has taken upon himself is comparable to the research of historians called to study and preserve Bulgarian generic memory and moral values, without which the future is unthinkable.

СЪВРЕМЕННИ ПОКЛОННИЧЕСТВА НА БЪЛГАРИ В РУМЪНИЯ

Author(s): Evgenia Troeva,Valentina Vaseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The paper presents observations on the pilgrimage of Bulgarians in Romania. On the one hand, the research interest focuses on pilgrimages of representatives of the Bulgarian communities in Romania to famous monasteries and churches in the country. At the same time, the tendencies in the crossborder pilgrimages of Bulgarians from Bulgaria visiting churches and monasteries in neighbouring Romania are presented. Personal observations and field interviews, as well as materials in the media on the topic under consideration, are used as source material. Bulgarians visit in Romania religious topoi popular among the Christians, especially places related to Bulgarian history. In this sense, these pilgrimages are an expression of religious feelings and of national identity. Observations on pilgrimage as a religious practice show that this traditional form offers to believers meaningful messages for their spiritual world and social life.

НАЦИОНАЛНИТЕ ПРАЗНИЦИ НА ТУРСКАТА РЕПУБЛИКА В МИНАЛОТО И СЕГА

Author(s): Kalina Peeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The objective of the present article is to analyse the Turkish holiday system introduced after the proclamation of the Republic and supplemented over the decades with new occasions for national celebrations. Four of Turkey’s “great holidays” introduced under Mustafa Kemal are discussed as events targeted at creating certain emotional states serving to support the Kemalist regime and to create a sense of national belonging in the minds of the Turks. The changes introduced in the national holiday system after the military coup of 1980 are also brought into focus. That was the time when the then Turkish statesmen began to pursue a policy of “Turko-Islamic synthesis” that restored the Islamic festivities – prohibited during the early years of the Republic and traditionally celebrated by left-wing political forces – back into the national calendar. Last but not least, the national holiday known as Democracy and National Unity Day, born of the attempted military coup in 1916, is also presented.

Международна конференция „Маршрути на книжовно общуване на източните и южните славяни през XI–XX век

Author(s): Andriana Spasova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 39/2019