Charity certificate from National library
On the 31st of October students from the 10th grade visited the National library to receive a charity certificate for the newspaper, which they have been“saving” with funds from the restoration grant.
The edition is a satiric newspaper from the Bulgarian Rebirth called “Shutosh”, which has been edited by Petko Slaveykov and printed in Istanbul. Its first issue dates from 1873. The issues, which have been put in a binding, are overall preserved, but very fragile and in need of treatment. The newspaper, written before the Bulgarian independence from the Ottoman Empire, contains numerous articles, pamphlets, caricatures and short stories, many of which are still sounding relevant today.
Members of the class and the class teacher Mrs. Vanya Angelova received the certificate from professor Boryana Hristova, director of the National library “St. St. Kiril and Metodii” and docent Elisaveta Musakova, head of department “Manuscripts and antique printed books”. The students had the chance to touch the history of the Bulgarian Rebirth press and to read and look through the surviving issues of “Shutosh “, the restoration they donated for.