19/2004

CONTENTS:

120 YERS FROM THE BIRTH OF TODOR NIKOLOV

Nevyana Bachvarova. Todor Nikolov Ivanov – Life and work – 36

Ianka Nikolov A memory about Todor Nikolov – 37

Todorka Draganova. About Todor Nikolov with love and respect – 41

Maria Ovcharova. The saint of Veliko Tarnovo – 45

Radka Todorova. Todor Nikolov – In the memories of my father – 54

Mirko Robov. Todor Nikolov as a researcher of St Dimiter church – 62

Todorka Draganova, Tsvetana Gencheva. The Contribution of Todor Nikolov from his research work of the economic development of Tumovo during the 19th century – 68

Svetlozага Chepkanova-Staneva. Islaamik religious buildings in Todor Nikolov Researches – 74

Pavlina Vladeva. Todor Nikolov’s contribution for the study, preservation and popularization of the cultural and historical heritage of Veliko Tumovo region – 82

Tatyana Kancheva. Todor Nikolov’s archive kept in „Bulgarian history XV – XIX c.” Department – 91

HISTORY

Evlogi Dankov. The hesychasm of Veliko Turnovo and Gregory Tsamblak. 640th anniversary of the birth of Bishop Gregory Tsamblak (1364 – 1420) – 104

Ventsislav Tsonev. The glagolitic alphabet and its mystery ……………………………….116

Penka PetrovaGoliyska, Eleonora Spassova. Troyan municipality and civil organizations during the Renaissance – 124

Ivan Topuzanov. The Iightwood in the mountain villages – 125

Neycho Kаnev. The flag of thr Stara Zagora uprisers from 1875 a museum relic or a precursor of the National symbol? – 140

Borianа Bojankinska. Participants from the town of Tamovo in the detachment of Philip Totyo in 1876 – 146

Radka Kaleva-Indzhieva. Orthodox christianity and the Russo-Turkish war of liberation 1877 – 1878 – 153

Rosina Dankova. Moral theology of bishop Clement Branitski and his contribution to the history of the „St George the victorious” monastery of Glozhene – 166

Tinka Bozova. Father Innokentiy’s study of Kliment bishop of Turnovo – 177

Tyanka Mincheva. More to the question about the openning of the Constituent Assembly in Turnovo in 1879 and the debates about the „General question” – 189

Atanas Koev. Stefan Stambolov and the Bulgarian education and cuture – 197

Borislav Gurdev. The forgotten builder of new Bulgaria – 205

Svetla Atanasova. Seals of the firm „Todor Vasilev and co” from the second half of the 19th214

Dobrina Berova. The tolerance between different ethnical groups in Yambol in the past. .221

Vasil Stanchev. The relation between VMORO and the Thessalonian assailants – 222

Vesela Martinova. Participants from Veliko Turnovo in the First Bulgarian Agricultural-Industrial Fair in Plovdiv in 1892 – 232

Anastasya Georgieva. „Village Revival” – a common magazine about science and education (1903 – 1905) – 240

Pepa Koskina. Municipal activity in Nikolaevo, district Stara Zagora for the period 1878 – 1944 – 251

Veselka Dimova. The Veliko Tarnovo branch of the Voluntary Society Slivnitsa (1908 – 1944) – 261

Stefan Beykov. The Balkan War and the historical Justice – 265

Ani Zlateva. The Czech journalist Vladimir Sis and his epic in photos about the Balkan Wars 1912 – 1913 – 266

Diana Vacheva. The participation of colonel Nicola Jekov in the negotiation between Bulgaria and Turkey in the period 1913 – 1915 – 296

Elisaveta Dimitrova. The duties of the prisoners of War in the Bulgarian camps during World War І – 304

Todorka Nedeva. Veliko Turnovo and professional organization of Bulgarian journalists.309

Georgi Lukov, Marina Kalcheva. Inquiry, reconstruction and maintenance of the Bulgarian military monuments, cemeteries and graves in Macedonia and Trakia in the period of 1941 – 1944 – 317

MUSEOLOGY 

Evgenii Sachev. Social Researches of the museum audience – 320

Simeon Nedkov. The idea for the Bulgarian museum in the beginning of the XX century – 356

Petar Cholov. Public community centres and development of museum activity – 357

Mariana Krasteva. The creation of the Naval museum – personalities, ideas, institutions – 370

Mariana Tomitova. School museums and museum collections. The role of the teachers in the building of the museum system tn Bulgaria (1878 – 1944) – 380

Alexander Vulchev, Luyba Dashovska. The technical museum work in Bulgaria – 381 стр.

Stefka Krasteva. The difficult Museum – 397

Kresa Stoyanova. Peroushtitsa residents strive for preserving the history of the town – 405

Ivan Zanov. The Museum of Silistra (1898 – 1943) – 411

Anna lliеva. Hristo Danov and his heirs – contributions to save the Bulgarian Historical Monuments – 419

Rumiana Doncheva. The Prague National Museum and the exposition of the bulgarian book in 1934 – 428

Tihomir Tonkov. Nikola Т. Manolev Statelov – the jealous explorer of the past – 434

Katya Terzieva. The Historical Museum „Iskra” of Kazanluk in the diaries of Chudomir (Dimiter Chorbadjiiski) – 441

Maria Ivanova. The beginning of organized museum work in Yambol (1952 – 1969) – 446

Jivodar Dushkov. Rousse period in life and works of Nikola Angelov – 452

Stefka Boeva. Stefan Furtounov: Founder and first director of the House of humour and satire in Gabrovo – 460

Tatyana Tsankova. The Art museum and the artist – 471

Ivanka Lilova. The calendar holidays at the „Etara” museum – traditions and innovation 476

Galya Chohadjieva, Georgi Kumanov. Workshop as we do it. The Museum like a meditator of the traditions – 488 стр.

Nadka Vasileva. The necessities associated with precise an urban tradition from the fund of section „Ethnography” Historical Museum Veliko Tarnovo – 498

Snejana Ivanova. Bulgarian’s cosmos. The culturological aspects of dualism in some ritual practices of the spring calendar – 506

Oleg Benov. The garrison shooting range in Sofia – 517

Svetla Dimitrova. The temporary exhibitions – museum’s activity with a lot of projections – 524

Veneta Georgieva-Kozareva. Donations and donors: a view from the 21st century – 531

Daniela Tchulova. The Museum as a „portrait” of an individuality – 537

Sonva Petrova. The image of the Historical Museum of Veliko Tarnovo according to the press in 2003 (a try for museological monitoring) – 549

Vidin Sukarev. Internet like means of scientific communication in the museum practice – 555

Hristo Ivanov. The computers in the fund work of the museum – 559