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Dobri Voynikov

Died in 1878

Dobri Voynikov was born in 1833 in Shumen, the son of a priest. A pupil of Sava Dobroplodni and Ivan Bogorov, he conducted his town's orchestra while still young, then completed his studies in 1858 at a French college in Constantinople. A teacher in Shumen, committed to the struggle for the Bulgarian Church and school, he was forced into exile in Romania in 1864. In Brăila he founded a Bulgarian theatre company in which women appeared on stage for the first time, then continued his work in Bucharest and Giurgiu. He died in Tarnovo in 1878.

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