Sabres hristo botev biography
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Voivodes’ Sabers Exhibition - Bulgarian revolutionaries’ weaponry
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Hristo Botev
He’s alive! Alive on the Balkan crest
He groans, soaked in blood, full length
A lad with a deep wound in his breast
A lad in all his manly youthful strength.
His musket to one side he’s hurled;
His sabre in two pieces tossed;
His head rocks with eyes in darkness furled
The cosmos on his lips is cursed.
The youth lies prone but up there strong
The sun is fixed; it angry burns
Somewhere below, there’s a reaper’s song
But still the blood unstinted runs!
Harvest time is on! Sing you slave
Your mournful dirge. Sun shine your fill
On this land enslaved. While this lad so brave
Is sure to perish …Heart fall still!
He who falls in freedom’s fight
He does not die; for him do mourn
All earth and sky, beasts, birds in flight.
And singers chant their songs new born.
By day an eagle keeps him in the shade
A wolf licks his wound with gentle tongue
From high a hawk looks after the lad
As for its kin, hawk, fit for the young.
Evening falls; the moon will rise
The stars fill Heaven’s vault along
The woods rustle; the wind sighs
The mountain sings its brigand song.
And elven-maidens robed in white
Pick up the song in wondrous ruth,
Silently tear green turf this night
And come to sit around this youth.
One binds his wound with aloe compress
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Blazing Bulgaria
The Monument at Shipka Pass
[Reposted in honour of the 137th anniversary of the battle of Shipka Pass]
It is well known that in history often insignificant circumstances can change the fates of nations. For example, the battle for Shipka pass in August 1877, the trial by fire of the newly formed Bulgarian volunteer corps and its most costly victory, was fought because of a sabre. A beautiful sabre, made of gold and encrusted with diamonds, but still, merely a sabre.
The summer of 1877 brought variable success to the Russian army on the Balkas. Since the beginning of the Russo-Turkish war, General Gurko had crossed the Danube and conquered parts of Moesia and three key Balkan passes, but the Russians’ attempts to claim the powerful fortress of Pleven were met with the fierce resistance of Osman Pasha, fortified there with his armies. An enormous part of Russia’s military might was tangled in the blockade of the strongest Ottoman outpost in Northern Bulgaria and every day’s delay was a day gained by Suleiman Pasha’s army, which was travelling from the South in relief of the besieged. These armies’ merging would spell defeat for the more poorly provisioned Russian army and for Bulgaria’s seedling hopes for liberation.