Author · Bulgaria
Aleko Konstantinov
Died in 1897
Aleko Konstantinov was born on 13 January 1863 in Svishtov, into a family of merchants. A law graduate of the University of Odessa, he joined the public prosecutor's office in Sofia in 1886, then the court of appeal, from which he was removed, and practised as a lawyer. He visited the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and drew from it To Chicago and Back, and he is regarded as the founder of the Bulgarian tourist movement: on 27 August 1895, some three hundred people climbed Cherni Vrah with him. A satirist above all, he died in 1897, at the age of thirty-four.
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- NovelBai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern BulgarianБай ГаньоAleko Konstantinov · 1895LiteraturePublic domain