Boris Vazov

1873–1957

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Cut-out detail; background removed. Ivan Vazov. Archival portrait, date unknown. — ArchiveUnknown author · Public domain · Bulgarian Archives State Agency / Wikimedia Commons

Vazov is still completing it after returning to Bulgaria.

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In Odesa, Ivan Vazov starts a novel about people back home.

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The map marks three cities. Sopot is Vazov’s hometown.

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Vazov’s birth house in Sopot burns down in July 1877.

Scene 8 · Ivan Vazov

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Photographic portrait · Unknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Vazov
Not a portrait · Unspecified · CC0 · British Library via Wikimedia Commons
Darea, Baroness Zouche
Photographic portrait · Inot · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ekaterina Karavelova
Photograph · Studio of Richard Beard · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Robert Curzon
Archival portrait · Unknown artist · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Nikolay Hristoforov Palauzov
Not a portrait · Петър Берон (book author) · Public domain · World Digital Library / Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons
Anton Jovanović

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Цветанка Неделчева; Къща музей „Иван Вазов“, Сопот Къща музей Иван Вазов — История vazovmuseum.com; museum leaflet, Sofia · 2009
Илия Тодоров Из биографията на романа „Под игото“ (По повод на неговата стогодишнина) PDF Литературна мисъл · 1990 · 54–68
Владимир Трендафилов Английският Вазов: преводачът на „Под игото“ / Vazov Anglicized: Who Translated Under the Yoke? PDF Литературна мисъл · 2015 · 31–45

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Balázs Trencsényi and Michal Kopeček (eds.); entry signed BM (Boyan Manchev) Ivan Vazov: Under the yoke PDF Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945), vol. II: National Romanticism — The Formation of National Movements. Budapest/New York: CEU Press · 2007 · 87–93
Wikimedia geographical database contributors Sopot: geographical record Wikimedia geographical database
Wikimedia geographical database contributors Odesa: geographical record Wikimedia geographical database
Wikimedia geographical database contributors London: geographical record Wikimedia geographical database
Иван Вазов; Столична библиотека Под игото Дигитална платформа „Сердика“; София: Т. Ф. Чипев · 1894 · 512 с., 25 л.
OCLC WorldCat; Ivan Vazov; V. Andreev; Louis Léger Sous le joug turc (Pod Igoto): roman de la vie des Bulgares à la veille de leur libération WorldCat catalogue, OCLC 26248388; Paris: H. Jouve · 1897
Unknown author File:Под игото Титул.jpg Wikimedia Commons
vislupus File:House-Museum of Ivan Vazov 22.jpg Wikimedia Commons
Unknown author File:BASA-1399K-1-1853-6-Ivan Vazov's house, Sopot.JPG Wikimedia Commons / Bulgarian Archives State Agency
vislupus File:House-Museum of Ivan Vazov 13.jpg Wikimedia Commons
vislupus File:House-Museum of Ivan Vazov 01.jpg Wikimedia Commons
vislupus File:House-Museum of Ivan Vazov 14.jpg Wikimedia Commons
Unknown author File:BASA-937K-1-410-7-Ivan Vazov (cropped).JPG Wikimedia Commons / Bulgarian Archives State Agency
Иван Вазов; digital text entered by Plovdiv University team, hosted by Моята библиотека Под игото Словото / Моята библиотека, primary literary text · 1894
Къща музей „Иван Вазов“, Сопот Семейство Вазови Къща музей „Иван Вазов“

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Photograph · c. 1925 · detail

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Unknown photographer / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain. Photograph · c. 1925 · detail

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