Anna Bulgarian ( Bulgarian. Anna Bulgarka ) - Bulgarian princess of the 9th-10th centuries, daughter of the prince of Bulgaria Boris I (852-889).
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Anna was the second child of Boris and the youngest of six children born to his second wife Maria. Granddaughter on the father of Khan Presian . The sister of the ruler (prince) Vladimir-Rasate (889–893), tsar Simeon I (893–927), princes Gavrail and Jacob, and princess Eupraxia .
Anna married Tarkhan and court Simeon, an influential figure of the first Bulgarian kingdom . Like her older sister Eupraxia, at the end of her life, Anna became a nun in a monastery in the first Bulgarian capital, Preslav .
On her gravestone, discovered by archaeologists in 1965, there is an inscription in Old Bulgarian and Greek languages: “The Order of the Servant of God Anna” Prez, the Father of the Mother of God in Devetya, Den’s Initiate of the Servant of God Anna , which confirms that she died a nun on October 9 of an unspecified year. [one]
On the reverse side of the stone cross is depicted a full-length female figure in loose-fitting clothes, her hands, set apart in the direction of the cross-domed churches on each side, she holds a scepter in her right hand. Based on this portrait, it is assumed that Anna was the ktitor of both churches.
Notes
- ↑ Golyama encyclopedia of Bulgaria. T. I (A-Bul). S.: BAN, 2012. p.69.
Literature
- Golyama encyclopedia of Bulgaria. T. I (A-Bul). S.: BAN, 2012. p.69. (Bulgarian)
- Wincenty Swoboda: Anna córka Borysa Michała. In Słownik Starożytności Słowiańskich. Vol. 1. 1961, p. 25. (Polish)