Величко Алексиев Попов – поет и хъш
Velichko Aleksiev Popov – a poet and an exil

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the biography of the author Velichko Aleksiev Popov who is almost unknown in the Bulgarian literature. Bulgarian and foreign scholar (including Ivan Radev, Elena Syupyur, Veselin Kandimirov, Mihail Dimitrov, etc) devoted short essays on his personality and creativity. As the author Velichko Alexiev Popov is not known. His name was associated with the name of Botev, although the poet Velochko Popov – the author of the poem “A happy meeting. Contemporary forest-exilic poem” – deserves its place in the Bulgarian literature. He is interesting not only as a poet but as an interesting person as well. The biography of the poet is not well studied, but it deserves the attention of researchers because a thorough study of his life and work would be useful and would explain the relationship between different texts of the Bulgarian Revival. Such as between the texts of Popov and texts of Rakovski, on one side, and the texts of Popov and texts of Botev, on the other side.

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