В КРИВОЛИЦИТЕ НА ЖУРНАЛИСТИКАТА И ДИПЛОМАЦИЯТА: ПАМЕТ ЗА ГЕОРГИ МАТОВ
IN THE CURVES OF JOURNALISM AND DIPLOMACY: MEMORY OF GEORGI MATOV (1909 – 1961)

Summary/Abstract: This text sets itself the modest task of restoring the memory of Georgi Tsonov Matov (1909–1961) – an undeservedly forgotten figure in the field of Bulgarian journalism and diplomacy in the years before and immediately after the World War II. He was born in the village of Krushovitsa, Pleven region, into the family of an active agricultural political figure with a dramatic fate, and in 1931 he completed his nine-year studies at Robert College in Constantinople. Returning to his homeland, he entered the service of the Press Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Denominations. On the eve and in the midst of the Second World War, he served as press attaché at the Bulgarian Royal Consulate in Constantinople (1938–1942), when he established close friendly relations with figures from the Turkish intellectual and political elite. He welcomed the Ninth of September as a member of the Fatherland Front, and a little later he was appointed diplomatic representative in Tirana. On the pretext that he had ceased to be an active member of the Fatherland Front, after a little more than a year he was recalled from the Albanian capital. The real rupture of the hereditary farmer Georgi Matov with the new government that had strengthened its positions in foreign and domestic politics occurred on the last day of 1947, when he was dismissed from his position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to spend the rest of his life in his native land in material insecurity, mental anxiety and isolation. The experienced journalist and skillful diplomat, fluent in English, French, Turkish, Serbian and Italian, was struck down by a double heart attack at the age of 52. This text also introduces his correspondence from Constantinople to the newspaper "Pladne" (1929–1931), which were his first steps in the field of journalism.

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