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Ivan Vazov has left us a lot of information about his life and work. However, there are quite a few unclear questions and contradictory information in his biography. This article sets itself the task of clarifying some moments in the poet's life, some of which are interpreted incorrectly, and others have not been presented for consideration in our press at all. Here we will focus on the question of Vazov's first attempts at the time he spent in Romania during his first trip to participate in the Bulgarian Central Charity Society, correcting some information about Vazov himself along the way. And it is natural that in clarifying these questions, we should first of all proceed from the information that the poet himself has left us. However, this information must be compared and checked repeatedly. Because the uncritical attitude towards them has led to the current situation - to allow not only in popular works, but also in some serious studies about Vazov, gross factual errors and inconsistencies.

The reason for writing the present commentary was given to me by the previously unknown letters of Anton Strashimirov to Naicho Tsanov, published by comrade Trifon Valov, and in particular some of the historical explanations that he gave to them. This publication is useful because it really contributes to clarifying some moments of the writer's life and activity, namely, when his restless spirit, albeit temporarily, took refuge under the wing of the radical democratic party that was then forming in our country. Incidentally, the published letters show how much Anton Strashimirov was interested in the course of the Macedonian liberation movement and how much this movement was connected with political life in Sofia.