The aphorisms of Tsanko Tserkovski

Raised in Borcha's Byala Cherkva, Veliko Tarnovo District, nurtured with the revolutionary ideas of Bacho Kiro Petrov, Tsanko Bakalov Tserkovski most closely connected his life and activities with the struggles of the Bulgarian people against bourgeois-monarchical domination, for freedom, social justice and a people's republic. Disgusted by the obscurantism in the bourgeois school, Tserkovski made long trips around the country, aiming to get to know both its natural beauties and the lives of ordinary working people. For him, community centers and libraries were the most valuable thing, as they revealed to him the history of humanity, gave him the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of the great world writers, to saturate his young and thirsty soul for struggle with progressive science, with freedom-loving human thought and culture, to find his place in life. In the Plovdiv library - writes Tserkovski - for eight whole months I was the most regular and earliest visitor.