Vasil Evstatiev Aprilov ( bg, Васил Евстатиев Априлов) (21 July 1789 – 2 October 1847) was a

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n educator. He studied in Moscow, graduated from a high school in Braşov and then pursued a medical degree in

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. After 1811 he was a merchant in

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. He initially participated in the

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revolutionary movement, but later devoted himself to the

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, thanks to

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, whose book "The Ancient and Present Bulgarians" (1829), aroused in

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a special interest in them. From then on, he began to gather Bulgarian folk songs. In his will he left a large amount of money for building the Aprilovska High School in Gabrovo. This was to be the first Bulgarian secular school using the

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. The emergence of this school gave a boost to Bulgarian education and soon other schools were opened all over the Bulgarian-populated regions of the

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Aprilov Point Aprilov Point (Aprilov Nos \a-'pri-lov 'nos\) is a point on the north coast of Greenwich Island, Antarctica situated 6.9 km east of Duff Point, 2.1 km east-southeast of Kabile Island, 2.2 km east-northeast of Crutch Peaks, 1.8&nbs ...

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is named for Vasil Aprilov.

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* People from Gabrovo 1789 births 1847 deaths 19th-century Bulgarian educators Bulgarian philanthropists 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Expatriates from the Ottoman Empire in the Russian Empire 19th-century philanthropists Tuberculosis deaths in Romania {{Bulgaria-bio-stub