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I first met Kiril Hristov (1875-1944) in the autumn of 1896, when I was a student at the University, and he had published his Songs and Sighs in the magazine Misl and in a separate booklet. He had just returned from Italy, where he had spent about a year as a student at a naval academy, and had renewed his friendship with Dr. Krastev, Pencho Slaveykov, Petko Karavelov and Aleko Konstantinov, in whom he had valuable patrons and friends. Having left the seventh grade of high school prematurely, he was now coming to pass his failed matriculation exam, in order to then enroll in the University as a law student. The subject of great attention in literary circles, he had become a favorite of a part of the youth with his lyrics, which revealed his passionate personal temperament and reflected the individualistic or social sentiments of a new generation that had begun to shake off the aesthetic prejudices of the older one. After his trip to Italy and other Western countries, Hristov stayed for a longer time in his homeland, changing various official positions, each more burdensome for him, in accordance with his will for an independent life and free creativity.