Transformation of the Social Space of an Ethnos in Historical Retrospect: Bulgarian Communities in Russia
Journal: European Scientific e-Journal
Year: 2018

The social space is constantly changing, which creates difficulties in interpreting this category.There are no ethnic groups that have lived in one place for the entire period of their history.The colonists from the Balkans had a single status, but they were not a single entity at all. A. Skalkovsky (1848) and Nikolai Derzhavin (1914) wrote about Bulgarian settlements.The formation of independent Bulgaria was promoted by the activity of national enlightenment figures in Bulgaria (V.E.Aprilov, M.