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It is known that one of the first (if not the very first) readers and judges of Botev's poems was Petko Slaveykov. Botev sent him a notebook of poems that burned in Stara Zagora along with many other manuscripts and books by Slaveykov, as his son Pencho testifies. In his newspaper "Gayda", year III, issue 19 of April 15, 1867, page 312, Botev's first published poem "Your Mother" appears. Slaveykov's words in "Macedonia", issue 33 of July 13, 1868 most likely refer to him: "I only know one of our young men with poetic abilities..." But after going to Bucharest, Botev no longer searched the pages of Slaveykov's publications. Standing on other, social-revolutionary positions, he cannot even condescendingly welcome some of the poetic confessions of Slaveykov, who, working in Constantinople under the nose of the Turkish authorities, could not accompany his fellow writers from the Transdanubian region in everything. And he was not spared by Botev in the humorous-satirical poem "Why Am I Not?"

The beginning of New Bulgarian poetry is usually associated with the first decades of the 19th century, with the names of Dimitar Popski, G. T. Peshakov, and others. It is also accepted that "new Bulgarian poetry arose outside the traditions of medieval literature. The writers who in the 19th century laid the foundation for modern Bulgarian poetry neither knew Slavic-Bulgarian poetry nor learned from it. Their gaze was directed towards other models - Russian, French, Greek, Serbian, Romanian poetry, on the one hand, and Bulgarian folk song, on the other".1 Of course, it is correct to believe that new Bulgarian poetry did not develop in isolation, on its own, but in close contact with the poetry of neighboring and more distant European peoples - Russian, Serbian, Greek, Romanian, French, etc., from which it was enriched both in form and content.

An original way for our national poet Ivan Vazov to express his public feeling and duty is the flyer with the poem "Don't!". From the possible references made, it was found that our literature does not mention the existence of a flyer with this work. This is not the first time that Ivan Vazov has resorted to such printing and distribution of his poems. As Kiril Hristov notes, many of the poems included in "Pryaporets Gusla" were scattered in manuscript form in Bucharest. "One of them, namely "The Battle Has Begun, Our Hearts Are Beating," was sung in some places in the Srednogorje Mountains when the April Uprising was announced in 1876. The same fact is confirmed by Yurdan Todorov.