To the biography of Kiril Hristov

In book 2 of Literary Thought, volume IX (1965), pp. 73-99, I presented part of a biographical-psychological survey of Kiril Hristov, which concerns some important moments in the internal and external history of his poetic work. Now I offer another part of this survey, with mainly biographical data and notes on my meetings and conversations with the poet. An important addition to this material would be my correspondence with the poet, in which questions of a biographical and psychological nature related to the origin of his literary works are often touched upon. My survey from 1914-1915, continued in 1921, mainly concerns the childhood, student life and the early period of Hristov's work. As brief as it is, it comes to supplement the poet's testimonies and confessions to other people, as well as what he published on this part in various memoirs and articles. My diary with notes on meetings and conversations with the poet is not is kept consistently, but it may have some value as a direct reflection of what the poet thought and did. However cursory and accidental these notes may be, they would contribute something to an insight into the character and work of a person who occupies a significant place in our literature of the period between 1894 and 1944.