Vazov

3. Background
Saba Vazova
Ivan Minchov Vazov was born on 9 July
1850 in Sopot. He
comes from a family of moderately
wealthy merchant, where leads an
atmosphere of strict order and
patriarchat.
The poetic activity of young Vazov was
patronized by his mother Saba -
outgoing and studious woman, but
discontent of his father, who had
decided to make his son a merchand
ilke him.

4. InteriorThe garden with the vine
Vazov’s native house

5. An other view

6. Education
Vazov ended the local mutual and
class school where he mastered
Russian.
In 1865 he studied Greek in the
school in Kalofer where Botyo
Petkov Botev’s father was his
teacher and then Vazov became his
assistant.
In 1866 he was a student in Plovdiv
school where he studied French.
In 1870 when he was in Romania, he
studied Romanian.

7. Social and political activity
before the Liberation
1.Teacher
2.Translator
3. Member of the
revolutionary
committee in his native
town

8. Social and Political activity
after the Liberation
 Chairman in the District Court
in the town of Berkovitsa
Member of the Provincial
Assembly in Plovdiv
Exile in Odessa, Ukraine
MP
Minister of Education

9. Creativity
The last 20 years of hs life, the
poet dedicated exclusively to the
writing activities.
Vazov works almost in all genres.
He is author of 16 books of
poetry.
He creates lots of novellas and
short stories.
He is the author of the first
Bulgarian novel ” Under the
Yoke”

11. His first
novel
Vazov’s works have been
translated into more over 50
languages.
The English edition of the
novel had been published
before the Bulgarian edition
by the British publishing
house William Heinemann.
The novel was translated
into French, Russian, Polish,
Spanish, Chinese, Japanese
and other languages.

12. Galery
Vazov and his wifeVazov and his family

13. Additional sources
If you want to learn more about
Vazov, you can visit next sites:
www.slovo.bg/vazov/
http://litclub.com/
http://www.znam.bg/
http://liternet.bg/publish/vazov/