From: lb@cs.man.ac.uk (Luben Boyanov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: A poem
Date: 4 Nov 92 11:08:26 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

In article <peter.720812755@itnux2.cineca.it> peter@itnux2.cineca.it (Peter Yovchev) writes:

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>The poem is "Zatochenici", written by the famous Bulgarian
>poet writer and patriot Peyo Kracholov /Yavorov/.
>It's dedicated to group of bulgarian rebels

You rightly call the VMRO leaders Bulgarian rebels.

> that organised
>a conspiracy in Solun against the Otoman empire

The first VMRO meeting (and establishement of the VMRO) was in Resna - the
birthplace town of many famous Macedonian Bulgarians, including Simeon
Radev. What happened in Solun (where the 'brain' of the VMRO was - 
Dr. Hristo Tatarchev) was a congress of the VMRO - in 1896, after which the
statures of the VMRO (in fact it became "Macedono-Odrinski" Committee !!!)
were written.

> /I
>don't remember exactly but I think it  happened in 1903/

The Ilinden uprising was in 1903 and in all Western sources (in case
somebody doubts that this is Bulgarian propaganda) the uprising is
described without any doubt as Bulgarian by it's character (despite that it
was for independent Macedonia).

>The group has been traited /typical bulgarian style/

It's not your fault that thhe ala-communists style of presentation of our
history has abused the historic facts. But if you read the accounts of the
British journalist Braisford, who describes the Bulgarian movement for
liberation of Macedoni in "Macedonia - it's races and their future", you
will find out that that during the uprising the Bulgarian population stuck
together and no leader was traited - thed author describes how Dame Gruev
has been for months during the winter in a Bulgarian town and no Bulgarian
traited him, despite that everybody knew he was there.

> and
>they were all condemned to past the rest of their life in
>exile in Anatolia /famous jail of Diarbekir/.

That is simply not true. Christo Tatarchev and Dame Gruev wrote their
memoirs in the late 20ies. Goce Delchev (who was the soul of the movement)
was killed shortly before the Ilinden uprising .

>There is nothing about Todor Alexandrov in this poem,

But the poem is dedicated to him. If you look in "Haidushki pesni",
Goce Delchev is not mentioned at all, but the poem is dedicated to him.

>there is nothing about Armenian emigrants, a
> poem called "Armenci" , dedicated to Armenian
>imigrants in Bulgaria is written by the same poet.

That's right. The poem "Armenci" (BTW, the word 'armenci' is never
mentioned in the poem) is dedicated to the Armenians. And it starts like this:

	Izgnanici kleti, otlomka nishtozhna
	ot vinagi hrabur narod muchenik,
	dechica na maika, robinya trevozhna,
	i zhertvi na podvig chutovno velik -
	dalech ot rodina, v krai chuzhdi subrani,
	izpiti i bledni, v poruten bordei,
	te piyat, a tunat surcata im v rani,
	i peyat, tui kakto prez culzi se pei.

...

Also one of the most beautiful (and sad) poems in the Bulgarian poetry.

>The very strange thing for me is that this is one of the
>few poems  written by a non communist poet that we us to study in 
>the high school but may be the other netters were missing the
>literature classes to play with the computers.

It's never late to combine both :-).

>Thanks for the poetry.

Thanks for your comments. I think that many netters had the right answer.
I put it as a quiz so that we all remember what beautiful rhymes we miss
from our own literture :-(. Or do we?

>saluti
>Peter Yovchev

Best regards

Luben


PS. BTW, I have 2 titles in Italian on the Macedonian subject from the
start of the century :-). If the library near you is a nice one and you
have the curiousity and time to go for them - mail me.