The Apostle of Freedom

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Authors: Mercia McDermott
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The Apostle of Freedom: A portrait of Vasil Levsky against a background of 19^th century Bulgaria
Мерсия Макдермот. Апостолът на свободата
Category: Struggle for national liberation
Language: Bulgarian

Vasil Levsky, whom the Bulgarians call the Apostle of Freedom, is Bulgaria's national hero. In the early 1870's he led an underground movement against the five-century-old Ottoman occupation. A combination of Sir Galahad and Robin Hood, Vasil Levsky was an outlaw who outwitted his enemies and slipped through their fingers with a thousand tricks and disguises. He was a true nineteenth-century hero who loved his country enough to die for it. The Apostle of Freedom is his fascinating biography. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Bulgaria was the only Balkan country still completely under Ottoman rule, at a time when all her neighbors had already achieved varying degrees of independence and internal democracy. Although Bulgaria did not gain even partial independence until after 1878, the nineteenth century was for her an age of national revival. This was the era of the so-called Bulgarian Renaissance, when every field of national life — from commerce to letters, from art to politics — blossomed like a desert after rain. The majority of Bulgaria's national heroes and her most venerated historical figures were men of the National Revival. Many of them were outlaws and revolutionaries, but monks, teachers, artists, architects, and master craftsmen are also numbered among them, for the Revival was not only an age of turmoil and bloodshed — it was also an age of beauty and learning. Of the young men who were at one and the same time the sons and the creators of the Bulgarian National Revival, at least one is worthy of more than national recognition — Vasil Levsky.