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Hristo Botev (1848-1876) – genius of the Bulgarian literature. Brilliant Bulgarian poet and revolutionary. A verse of Hristo Botev is written in golden letters in the Sorbonne – Paris, as an example of his poetry masterpiece: „Nastane vecher – mesets izgree, zvezdi obsipiat svoda nebesen, gora zashumi, viatar povee, Balkanat pee haidushka pesen.” English version: “The moon comes out and day grows dim, on heaven’s vault the stars now throng, the forest rustles, quiet stirs the wind, the mountains sing song of fighters.” Ivan Vazov (1850-1921) - for more than fifty years Ivan Vazov was the most prominent figure in Bulgarian literature after The Liberation.