ODESSA BULGARIANS’ FIRST CONTACTS WITH THE PRAG SLAV IC STUDIES CENTRE

Abstract

The Article's task is to include new not yet published sources from Vaclav Hanka's and Pavel Josef Šafařík's personal Archives in Prague and together with already published letters to present and analyze the contacts they had with the Bulgarian cultural leader Vasil Aprilov. Brief content of the work. Based on the correspondence and in a comparative manner research has been done on the common ideas and concepts, the Odessa Bulgarian and Vaclav Hanka shared. Presented are also the contacts some younger generation Odessa Alumni (Ivan Bogorov, Ivan Shopov, Father Natanayl) established with the Czechs Scholars at the Bohemia Kingdom National Museum.  Conclusions Thanks the cultural activities these Odessa educated emigrants had in Central Europe, by the 60^ties of 19 C. for first time Bulgarians – in the beginning predominately living abroad – actively contributed to the Bulgarian Studies development.