Климент Браницки и Търновски като министър-председател на Княжество България
Kliment Branitski i Turnovski as Prime Minister of the Principality of Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: Kliment Branitski i Turnovski (Vasil Droumev) was one of the most eminent personality in Bulgaria’s new history: participant in the revolutionary struggles, writer, one of the founders of the Bulgarian Literary Society, and after the Liberation from Turkish bondage – statesman, active public figure and respected prelate. This article aims at shedding light on the aspect of his activity: his participation in two governments of the Principality: from November 24, 1879 to March 24, 1880 and from August 9 to 12, 1889. The reasons for including the high clergyman in the two cabinets were different, but the motivation was the same: by his personal authority and the influence of the institution he represented to help getting out of the crisis situations created in the autumn of 1879 and the summer of 1886 in the Principality of Bulgaria. The sins of which of his contemporaries accused him that with his participation in the executive power Kliment Branitski pursued personal favours or tried to satisfy his personal ambitions for political expression did not correspond to truth, On the contrary, with his civic stand, with his loyalty to Orthodoxy and to Christian morality Kliment Branitski i Turnovski until the end of his life remained a patriot, one of those National Revival figures who realized the difficult transition to the values of the new time and the modern world.

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