Exhibition on the Occasion of 170 Years Since the Birth of Ivan Vazov at the Mission Gallery
After its successful exhibition in the summer this year, the poster exhibition "170 Years Since the Birth of Ivan Vazov" visited the State Institute for Culture at the Mission gallery.
Specially created for Vazov's jubilee celebrations, the exhibition was presented to the public for the first time in the Central Building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on July 9 - the birthday of the Patriarch of Bulgarian Literature.
The exhibition presents works by Vazov, stored in the library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for 150 years, and shows his works, which before being published as independent works, were published on the pages of "Periodical Magazine" and "Collection of Folk Tales", editions of the Bulgarian Literary Society, predecessor of BAS.
The Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences preserves about 1000 titles of the diverse genre of the national poet, as well as literature about him. Among them are selected first publications and editions of his emblematic works, including an edition of "Under the Yoke" with handwritten corrections by Vazov, a copy of "The Lilac Smells" from the personal library of Stoyan Mihajlovski with dedication by the author. Translations into various languages are also shown, including the oldest, owned by the library, "Under the Yoke" in French from 1897, with a foreword by Louis Leger.
The State Institute for Culture is involved in the celebration of the 170th anniversary of Vazov through the first visit of the exhibition of the Central Library of BAS at the Mission gallery. Our visitors will have the opportunity to get acquainted with a representative part of its literary heritage, significant for the Bulgarian cultural and national memory, translated into many languages - English, French, German, Czech, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Estonian, Latvian, Mongolian, Ukrainian, Russian, etc.
The exhibition can be visited from 18 November to 23 December 2020 between 10 am and 5 pm, subject to all distance requirements and epidemiological measures.