Peyo Yavorov ( bg, Пейо (Кр.) Яворов; born Peyo Totev Kracholov, Пейо Тотев Крачолов; 13 January 1878 – 29 October 1914) was a Bulgarian

Symbolist poet Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism ...

. He was considered to be one of the finest poetic talents in the ''

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Kingdom of Bulgaria The Tsardom of Bulgaria ( bg, Царство България, translit=Tsarstvo Balgariya), also referred to as the Third Bulgarian Tsardom ( bg, Трето Българско Царство, translit=Treto Balgarsko Tsarstvo, links=no), someti ...

. Yavorov was a prominent member of the "Misal" ("Мисъл") literary and cultural group. His life and work are closely connected with the liberation movement

Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; bg, Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация (ВМРО), translit=Vatrešna Makedonska Revoljucionna Organizacija (VMRO); mk, Внатр� ...

in Macedonia. He was also a supporter of the Armenian Independence Movement, and wrote a number of poems about Armenians. Most of his poems are romantic in subject, and dedicated to the two women in his life – Mina Todorova and Lora Karavelova. His first (and arguably greatest) love Mina died from

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, which greatly saddened Yavorov. She was buried in the cemetery of Boulogne Billancourt. Later on he met Lora, the daughter of statesman

Petko Karavelov Petko Stoichev KaravelovFrederick B. Chary, ''The History of Bulgaria'', ABC-CLIO, 2011, p. 181 ( bg, Петко Стойчев Каравелов; 24 March 1843 – 24 January 1903) was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who served as Prime M ...

. They were married, and the letters correspondence between them was considered evidence of their ardent and vivid love, and thus different from the relationship Yavorov had with Mina Todorova. In 1913, Lora shot herself and Yavorov tried to commit suicide. The bullet went through his

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, which left him blind. In despair over the trial provoked by Lora's death and the rumor that he had killed her, Yavorov poisoned and then shot himself in autumn 1914, at the age of 36. Javorov cheta

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Slaveykov Yavorov Todorov Krstev (cropped)

Yavorov Peak Yavorov Peak ( bg, Яворов връх, Yavorov vrah, ) is an ice-covered peak of elevation 640 m in the Delchev Ridge of the Tangra Mountains on eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak surmounts Sopot I ...

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in the

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is named after Peyo Yavorov. In addition, a number of elementary (primary), middle and high (secondary) schools across Bulgaria also bear his name (e.g. the ''Peyo Kr. Yavorov Middle/High School'' in Plovdiv).Peyo Kr. Yavorov Middle/High School in Plovdiv
official website in Bulgarian. Retrieved 19 December 2009 Article on the 'Peyo Kr. Yavorov Middle/High School' in Plovdiv, from BG Wikipedia. Retrieved 19 December 2009A list of Bulgarian schools named after Peyo Yavorov
from the Bulgarian information portal Uchilishta.Guide-Bulgaria.com. Retrieved 19 December 2009 An elementary school in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

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is named after Peyo Yavorov.YEREVAN BASIC SCHOOL №131 NAMED AFTER PEYO YAVOROV
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* Rozalia Hristova
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'', 5 April 2001. Retrieved 6 July 2007
"Bulgarian poems in the public transport of Washington, D.C."

Radio Bulgaria Radio Bulgaria ( Bulgarian: Радио България, ''Radio Balgariya''; BNR) is the official international broadcasting station of Bulgaria. History For almost seventy years the world service of the Bulgarian radio, formerly called Radio ...

, 31 May 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2007
Art Center Haskovo – "Peyo Yavorov"
Cultural Community Center in Haskovo, Bulgaria. * Tufarulo, G, M. ''Das Graue Elend – La fredda impenetrabile notte di Pejo Javorov'', Roma: Passaporto, 2001.

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