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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.

A citizen writer, a talented realist artist, despite separate periods of tortuousness and inconsistency, Anton Strashimirov actively participated in the struggle of the progressive forces of the people. All this determines the great interest of our literary and cultural community in his life and creative path. However, his first steps in the public sphere are still covered by the obscurity of the past decades. The only source for these years remains the autobiographical notes of the writer, printed in 1931. But in them he shed light primarily on his creativity, and devoted only a few lines to his public and political activities. There is fragmentary data about this period of the writer's life in some articles and monographs. But they cannot restore his participation and role in public life from the late eighties and early nineties of the last century. And as Professor Assen Zlatarov notes, it was from this time that Anton Strashimirov was baptized for the feat of the citizen.

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.