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Much has been written about the influence of Russian literary and social thought on the development of Bulgarian culture and the revolutionary-democratic formation of prominent figures during the Revival era. Sometimes, however, this influence is traced too generally and mechanically, without taking into account a number of facts that are of direct importance for the creative clarification of certain aspects of the activity and ideology of a given writer or public figure. Of course, in this case, a comprehensive study of the Russian periodical press, of fiction and other literature in the 19th century is necessary, above all, a task that is extremely difficult and almost impossible to accomplish without the collective efforts of writers, historians, folklorists, and philosophers. That is why the statements and notes of some of our Revival figures in their works or in their surviving archives about specific manifestations of Russian cultural and political life, about their interests in certain literary and scientific works, are all the more valuable. The catalogues of their libraries, which illustrate their preferences for famous authors, deserve no less attention. Therefore, the detailed notes from the archive of Lyuben Karavelov, as well as the catalogue of his unpreserved library, printed in the Izvestia of the National Library "Vasil Kolarov", served as reliable guides for more targeted research in the libraries and manuscript collections of Moscow and Leningrad. These bibliographical instructions did not narrow my task - the study of Russian literature and culture in the 60s-70s of the 19th century - to revolve exclusively around Karavelov. Considering the encyclopedic interests of the editor of "Svoboda" and "Nezavisimost", it is very easy to understand that getting acquainted with specific aspects of the ideological and cultural environment in which he lived and worked for ten years allows the researcher to feel the aspirations and excitements of the rest of our Renaissance writers who received their education in Russia. It is enough to note that 502 of the 821 books and magazines contained in Karavelov's library are Russian, a small part of which is preserved in the Vasil Kolarov National Library. Karavelov's library contained many of the works of the revolutionary democrats Belinsky, Herzen, Nekrasov, a number of works by Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, valuable natural science and other studies. All of them, together with the hundreds of other titles of individual works or articles that Karavelov bibliographed, give a complete idea of ​​the richness and diversity of Russian life at that time.