Razstrelʺt na Khristo Botĭov
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Hristo Botev (1848-1876) was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary who fought against the Ottoman slavery on the Bulgarian lands. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and real national hero. Who killed Botev? This is one of the biggest riddles in the Bulgarian history. The school textbooks say that Turkish Zappeti killed him. But is it really so? Were there a traitor in his closest circle? What was the role of Nikola Obretenov, Georgi Apostolov and of his other friends? Veselin Ignatov digs the facts, compares the sources, pursuing the clues and presents Botev’s shoot as a criminal process.
