Karavelov was born in Koprivshtitsa and worked in Russia, Serbia and Romania. His fiction portrays society and everyday relationships, while his newspapers discuss political change. Emigrant communities were important to his work. He is distinct from his brother Petko, a later prime minister. Wrote Bulgarians of olden times. Edited Svoboda and Nezavisimost. Took part in the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee. He shows how literary and political publishing participated in the same public movement.
History of Bulgaria
