ВНЕСОК РОДИНИ ШИШМАНОВИХ У РОЗВИТОК БОЛГАРСЬКОГО ТЕАТРУ
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SHISHMANOVS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BULGARIAN THEATRE

Summary/Abstract: The article reveals the issue of the contribution of one of the most authoritative families in Bulgaria – the Shishmanovs in the formation and development of the Bulgarian theatre. In the second half of the 19th century a teacher and public figure Dimitar E. Shishmanov opened the first private trade school, reading room and founded an amateur theatre in Svishtov. He translated dramas of famous European playwrights and created his own plays for the theatre. His son Ivan Shishmanov continued his father’s work in the cultural and educational development of the country. Having received an excellent education abroad, he returned to Bulgaria to raise the level of the education, literature and culture. From 1889 until 1894 Ivan Shishmanov worked as the Head of the Department at the Bulgarian Ministry of Education. During that time, he helped young writers, artists, actors, actresses and musicians to go abroad to study or for an internship. As Bulgarian Minister of Education (1903-1907) Ivan Shishmanov opened the Academy of Music and the National Theatre. His wife Lidia Shishmanova was fond of dramatic art. She collaborated with a number of periodicals, where she regularly published reviews of theatrical performances. The son of Ivan and Lidia – Dimitar Shishmanov continued his parents’ activities. He was a writer, publicist, translator from Ukrainian, German, French, Greek, and a playwright, whose plays were staged at the National Theatre. The ideas of three generations of Shishmanovs stimulated the development of the Bulgarian theatre and their contribution to the cultural treasury deserves high appreciation.

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