Hristo Botev, born Hristo Botyov Petkov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and poet. Botev is considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero. His poetry is a prime example of the literature of the Bulgarian National Revival, though he is considered to be ahead of his contemporaries in his political, philosophical, and aesthetic views.
Botev c. 1875
Ivanka Boteva, Botev's mother
The Botev Brothers (Botev is pictured in the middle, upper row.)
Botev's house in Kalofer
Bulgarian National Revival
The Bulgarian Revival sometimes called the Bulgarian National Revival, was a period of socio-economic development and national integration among Bulgarian people under Ottoman rule. It is commonly accepted to have started with the historical book, Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, written in 1762 by Paisius, a Bulgarian monk of the Hilandar monastery at Mount Athos, lead to the National awakening of Bulgaria and the modern Bulgarian nationalism, and lasted until the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878 as a result of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.
St Paisius of Hilendar put the beginning of the Bulgarian Revival with his Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya
Execution of Vasil Levski in 1873
The characteristic architecture of Plovdiv's old town
Bulgarian National Revival Church Architecture, Targovishte