VENETS: the Belogradchik journal for local history, cultural heritave and folk studies

261-279

Authors: R. Pankova-Karadjova

This is a snapshot story of a young woman life in the North-West Bulgarian villages during the late 1930s. Venah Milova is on her way to visit her husband Yordan, who works at a windmill near Belogradchik. She has to walk 18 kilometres to get there, and to save her single pair of shoes, she tucks them in her bag and goes barefoot. Venah manages to hitchhike a ride in the carriage of the district constable and captivates him with her sense of humour and the words: I am a district person too. She honestly shares with him the difficulties of the poor peasant’s life her own and other families go through, hoping for a change. Impressed with the young woman’s conduct, her sincerity, confidence and her openly expressed vision, the district constable makes a special detour to deliver Venah to her destination. He then congratulates her husband Yordan for his beautiful, open-minded and hard-working wife. This is a true story, written out as part of “The history of my family” – started by Yordan, continued by their daughter Vetka Pankova and retold here by their granddaughter Rostislava Pankova-Karadjova.

312-327

Authors: K. Krastev

The travel notes, entitled “Stone Wonders”, by Kiril Krastev (1904-1991), were published in the famous magazine “Zlatorog” in 1939 (Volime 20, Number 10).

356-359

Authors: B.V. Toshev

The first information about the meteorite of Belogradchik (1874) was given in Bulgarian language in the newspaper The Levant Times, 1 June 1874.

372-379

Authors: V. Toshev

In 1907 Konstantin Kavarnaliev was a commander of the 15th Infantry Regiment in Belogradchik. He initiated the building of the summer training camp of the regiment. His activity in this time is described in details. Two families were in friendship – those of Kavarnaliev and Jonkov. Kavarnaliev was killed in the battlefield in 1913. Jonkov was killed in the terrorist attack in Sofia in 1925.

394-399

Authors: S. Antova

After the communist regime in Bulgaria, the interest of the people to religion was revived. Many of anthropological dimensions with religious nature are considered in Karamihova’s book (2014). Religious tourism and places of pilgrimages are described. The dynamics of this new social development is studied.