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Konstantin Velichkov

Died in 1907

Konstantin Velichkov was born in 1855 in Pazardzhik. A pupil at the imperial lycée of Galatasaray from 1868 to 1874, where he was already translating Hugo, he then taught in his town, where he chaired the reading circle and took part in preparing the uprising. Deputy in the Assembly of Eastern Rumelia after the liberation, Minister of Public Instruction from 1894 to 1897, he founded in 1896 the state drawing school of Sofia, today the Academy of Fine Arts. A painter and poet, he translated Pushkin, Shakespeare and Dante's Inferno. He died in November 1907.

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