The brothers Dimitar (1810, Strugs - January 23, 1862, Constantinople) and Constantine (1810, Strugs - January 18, 1862, Constantinople) Miladinovs - figures of the Bulgarian cultural revival of the 19th century.
| Dimitar Miladinov | |
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| Dimitar Miladinov | |
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| Date of Birth | 1810 |
| Place of Birth | Struga |
| Date of death | January 23, 1862 |
| Place of death | Constantinople |
| Citizenship | Ottoman Empire |
| Father | Hristo Miladinov |
| Mother | Sultan Miladinov |
| Konstantin Miladinov | |
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| Konstantin Miladinov | |
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| Date of Birth | 1810 |
| Place of Birth | Struga |
| Date of death | January 18, 1862 |
| Place of death | Constantinople |
| Citizenship | Ottoman Empire |
| Father | Hristo Miladinov |
| Mother | Sultan Miladinov |
Content
Family
The Miladinov brothers were born in a large family of potters of Christ Miladinov and his wife Sultana Miladinova. They had eight children: Dimitar and Constantine, Naum, Thane, Mate, the Apostle, as well as Anna and the Cross.
Activities
Both brothers were important figures in the cause of the Bulgarian national revival.
Miladin Brothers Collection
In 1856, Dimitar returned to Strugi to accompany his brother Konstantin, who traveled to Russia to study Slavic philology at Moscow University.
In Moscow, he remained until graduation in 1860, and then in Vienna he met with Joseph Yuri Strosmeier, who helped him publish a collection of Bulgarian folk songs.
A collection entitled “Bulgarian folk songs. Collect the brothers Miladinovtsi, Dimitry and Constantine and publish Constantine. In Zagreb. A typographer at A. Yakich, 1861 ” [1] [2] [3] comes out in Zagreb in 1861. It consisted of 660 Bulgarian folk songs from the Slavic regions of the Central and Eastern Balkans.
Konstantin Miladinov's Poetry
The poetry of Konstantin Miladinov was full of social and national motives. The following is a list of works published during his lifetime: [4]
- “Bead”, “B'lgar Book”, year I, 1858 , Prince. 15.
- “Desire”, “B'lgar Book”, Hodin I, 1858 , Prince 15.
- The Golapche, The B'lgar Book, Year I, 1858 , Prince 15.
- “Shupeљka”, “B'lgar Book”, Hodin I, 1858 , Prince 15.
- “Not a Piano”, “B'lgar Book”, Godina I, 1858 , Prince. 15.
- “The Clet”, “B'lgar Book”, Hodin I, 1858 , Prince 15.
- Skrsti, B'lgarski Knizitsy, Hodin I, 1858 , Prince nineteen.
- “Grk and Bugarin”, “B'lgarski Knizitsy”, Godina I, 1858 , pr. 24.
- “Brotherhood”, “B'lgar Book”, Hodin II, 1859 , Prince 22.
- “Thinking”, “B'lgar Book”, Hodin II, 1859 , Prince 22.
- "Sirace", "Brotherly Labor", 1860 , Prince. one.
- “At the Sonceto”, “Brotherly Labor”, 1860 , Prince one.
- “Enuptin Delicia”, “Brotherly Labor”, 1860 , Prince 3.
- “To a stranger”, “Dunavsky Swans”, year I, 1860 , br. 20.
- “T'ga for the Hug”, “Dunavsky Swans”, Godina I, 1860 , br. 20.
Death
In the middle of 1861, Constantine left Zagreb and went to Belgrade, where he found out that his brother Dimitar was in the prison of Constantinople.
Then he went to Constantinople, where he was arrested by the Turks, accused of espionage, and thrown into prison. The brothers Konstantin and Dimitar Miladinov died in 1862 in Constantinople under mysterious circumstances.
Links
- Original edition of 'Bulgarian Folk Songs' (Bulgarian)
- Full text of "Bulgarian folk songs" (Bulgarian)
- Letter bearing the signature of Konstantin Miladinov
- Konstantin Miladinov poetry (bulg.)
- official site of struga.org (English and Macedonian)
Notes
- ↑ Nationalism, Globalization and Orthodoxy: the social origins of ethnic conflict in the Balkans, Victor Roudometof, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, ISBN 0313319499, p. 144.
- ↑ Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976, Peter Mackridge, Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 019959905X, p. 189.
- ↑ Who Are the Macedonians? Hugh Poulton, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1850655340, p. 38.
- ↑ “Bulgaria’s Pre-natal Boy,” selection and editing Kiril Topalov, “- {Bulgarian writers} -”, Sofiha, 1980 , p. 271