The Speaker of the National Assembly Natalia Kiselova will participate in the celebrations dedicated to the 177th anniversary of the birth of Hristo Botev in Kalofer, the press center of the parliament announced, BTA reported.
Natalia Kiselova will be a guest at the musical and poetic performance "He is alive, he is alive" by students from the Sofia University "Hristo Botev", Kalofer. The performance will start at 5:00 p.m. at the National Museum "Hristo Botev". The Speaker of Parliament Natalia Kiselova will also join in the pilgrimage in front of the memorial plaque at the birthplace of Hristo Botev. The event will be held from 6:00 p.m. at the Revival church "St. Virgin Mary" and the holy spring, next to which a marble plaque has been placed, marking the site of the old Svetogorsk monastery and school. Hristo Botev was born in one of the rooms of this school. The Speaker of Parliament will lay flowers in front of the memorial plaque.
The poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev was born on January 6, 1848 in Kalofer, BTA recalls. He was a teacher in the Bessarabian Bulgarian village of Zadunaevka, after which he took over the teaching position from his father in his native Kalofer. Since the end of 1867 he has been in Romania (Bucharest and Braila), where he became involved in the life of the Bulgarian revolutionary community.
Published in. "Word of the Bulgarian Emigrants" (1871), together with Lyuben Karavelov he writes for the newspaper "Svoboda" (from February 1873, the newspaper "Nezavisimost" (1872), publishes the newspaper "Budilnik" (1 May-1 June 1873), the newspaper "Zname" (8 December 1874-14 September 1875) - the printed organ of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee (BRCC). From August 1874 he was a member of the Provisional Central Committee, and from 1875 of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Committee.
He took part in the preparation of the April Uprising (1876). He organized a detachment of 200 people with which he captured the Austrian steamer "Radetzky" and on May 29, 1876 (May 17, 1876) near the village of Kozloduy he landed on the Bulgarian bank of the Danube River, from where he headed for the Balkan Mountains. After heavy fighting with the regular Turkish army, Circassians and Bashibazouks, he was shot on June 1, 1876 (May 20, AD) on Kamarata Peak in the Okolchitsa area in the Vratsa Balkans.
By tradition, every year June 2 is celebrated as the Day of Botev and those who died for the freedom and independence of Bulgaria.