My father in me

In the spiritual biography of Pencho Slaveykov presented here, the most important and most often emphasized thought is that he grew up and prepared himself for life and art under the influence of his father - a Bulgarian folk poet and democrat-fighter, an exponent of a wisdom and an ideal that once inspired the Bulgarian guildsmen, peasants, and workers as a rallying revolutionary slogan: "Everything that is done for the people without the people is not righteous, is not legal." The son wrote a wonderful essay about his father; the main character in "Bloody Song," Mladen, is a bearer of the ideas of the old democrat: