Каравелова

The letter we are publishing, owned by Dr. Lyuben Tanchev from Plovdiv, sheds light on Lora's attitude towards Yavorov. Six years have passed since their acquaintance (1906), Mina Todorova has long been deceased, and at the beginning of 1912, a friendship was established between Lora and Yavorov. But it is interesting to note that a few days after writing the letter to her aunt in Plovdiv, she sent a letter to Yavorov, full of despair and pessimism. The two letters are completely opposite in mood. While the first one exudes a healthy confidence that the friendship with the poet will end successfully, in the second Lora attacks him unfoundedly, calling him cruel and unjust. In her letters to her relatives, however, she resolutely declares that she will link her fate with Yavorov, and admires his character. She hastens to introduce him to the family circle, instructs her aunt to receive him well, to send her letters through him, etc. To confirm that she truly knew him, she compares him with her father Petko Karavelov, deceased at that time, whom Lora greatly respected and loved. It is known that P. Karavelov took great care of the education and upbringing of his children. And Lora rightly writes that he gave his soul for them. But as much as Lora had tender feelings of love and gratitude towards her father, she was as wary of her mother. She without hesitation declares that she has no intention of listening to her, accuses her of ruining her youth and, by force, forcing her to marry Dryankov. This time Lora decided to vigorously fight for her happiness. After Laura's death (1913), her mother Ekaterina Karavelova contributed too much to the accusations against the post, to his bitterness, which led him to suicide on October 16, 1914.