"There is no greater testimony to the all-Bulgarian nature of the national revolution in its highest and last stage, when it focused primarily on the task of liberating the Bulgarians from Macedonia and Adrinople vilayet, than the pervasive impact that the Apostle of Freedom’s ideas and deeds exerted on the people inhabiting these still subjugated regions.
Decades after his tragic death, the aura of Vasil Levski (1837 – 1873)
shines brighter and brighter on the awakened Bulgarians from these
lands, standing as a guiding star in their heroic and tragic path to national
freedom.
In his poem in memory of Dame Gruev (1871 – 1906) from 1907, the
people’s poet Ivan Vazov (1850 – 1921) included the following quatrain:
Fell under the snow heroic lion-hearted forces,
A spirit of fire was extinguished; a powerful speech was silenced...
O Macedonia, you’re losing your Levski,
Your most faithful son, your strongest sword.
And immediately exclaims: “The great spirit does not die”.
This comparison,
this likening another tragically fallen national revolutionary, his
declaring as to ‘Levski of Macedonia’, is the highest possible Bulgarian
praise. In the oft-quoted words of the founder of the Macedonian Scientific
Institute, Prof. Lubomir Miletich (1863 – 1937), the sacral title preserved in
the Bulgarian national memory only for Levski was donated here to Dame as
regards his assassination occurred on 23rd December 1906:..."
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