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Tsarevna Miladinova-Alexieva ( Bulgarian: Царевна Миладинова; 1856–1934) was a Bulgarian educator who became a driving force behind girls' education in what was then the Ottoman Empire, known for her role in founding the
After finishing school, Miladinova returned to Bulgaria and worked as a teacher while helping to found girls' schools across the region, including in
A digitized version of ''Epoha, zemya i hora''
(in Bulgarian)
Bulgarian Girls' High School of Thessaloniki
The Bulgarian girls’ high school of Thessaloniki "Sveto Blagoveshtenie" (Annunciation of Our Lady) was founded by the Bulgarian community there. The school had its own building and boarding house, acquired with the help of the Bulgarian benefact ...
.
Early life and education
Tsarevna Miladinova was born in 1856 inStruga
Struga ( mk, Струга , sq, Strugë) is a town and popular tourist destination situated in the south-western region of North Macedonia, lying on the shore of Lake Ohrid. The town of Struga is the seat of Struga Municipality.
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, a town in what is now North Macedonia.
Her father was Dimitar Miladinov, an influential folklorist
Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...
and activist in the Bulgarian national movement, and she would share his Bulgarian nationalist views throughout her life.
When she was a child, the Russian consul noticed her reading during church services, and he offered to bring her with him to Russia to pursue her education. After taking him up on his offer, she graduated from a girls' high school in Kyiv, becoming one of various female members of the intelligentsia educated in Russia at that time.
Career
After finishing school, Miladinova returned to Bulgaria and worked as a teacher while helping to found girls' schools across the region, including in Shumen
Shumen ( bg, Шумен, also romanized as ''Shoumen'' or ''Šumen'', ) is the tenth largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and economic capital of Shumen Province.
Etymology
The city was first mentioned as ''Šimeonis'' in 1153 by t ...
, Etropole, Svishtov
Svishtov ( bg, Свищов ) is a town in northern Bulgaria, located in Veliko Tarnovo Province on the right bank of the Danube river opposite the Romanian town of Zimnicea. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Svishtov Municipalit ...
, and Prilep.
She taught a special class for girls within a boys' school in Shumen in the mid-1870s. Then, after working in Svishtov for a period, she gave up her position there to move to Thessaloniki, in what is now Greece, where efforts at educating young Bulgarians were beginning. She lived in Thessaloniki from 1882 to 1913, and she is best known for her work at the Bulgarian Girls' High School of Thessaloniki
The Bulgarian girls’ high school of Thessaloniki "Sveto Blagoveshtenie" (Annunciation of Our Lady) was founded by the Bulgarian community there. The school had its own building and boarding house, acquired with the help of the Bulgarian benefact ...
, which she co-founded. She was the first director of the school, which opened in 1882.
Miladinova was one of Bulgaria's best-known teachers of the period, and in her later years her writings on her life and ideas appeared in various regional magazines.
Death and legacy
Miladinova died in 1934 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her writings were first compiled and published posthumously as ''Epoha, zemya i hora'' in 1939. An updated version with unpublished manuscripts and documents was then published under the same title in 1985.External links
A digitized version of ''Epoha, zemya i hora''
(in Bulgarian)
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