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Ivan Vazov

Died in 1921

Ivan Vazov was born in 1850 in Sopot, the son of a merchant. Sent by his father to learn trade with an uncle in Romania, he preferred literature and joined the exiled revolutionaries in Brăila, where he met Hristo Botev. After the liberation, he sat in the assemblies of Eastern Rumelia and then of Bulgaria, and his Russophile views earned him exile in Odessa, from where he returned to settle in Sofia in 1889. Minister of Public Instruction in 1897, a poet, novelist and playwright, he died in 1921.

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