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Rajko Žinzifov

Died in 1877

Rajko Žinzifov was born in Veles on 15 February 1839, under the name Ksenofont Dzindzifi, into an Aromanian family; his father, a teacher of Greek, gave him his first lessons and employed him in his school in Prilep. On the advice of a teacher from Struga, he took the first name Rajko, left for Russia in 1858 and completed the faculty of history and philology in Moscow in 1864. He taught Greek there, at the Lazarev Institute and in secondary schools, wrote his poetry in Bulgarian and his journalism in Russian, and died in Moscow on 15 February 1877.

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