Krste Petkov Misirkov - The Macedonian

[Daskalot]

Was this Tito's doing?

Macedonians are Macedonians! Verbatim!

[Risto the Great]

I have never read the rubbish that Greeks use to prove Misirkov described himself as a Bulgarian. This clearly negates any of that rubbish and I believe he is an important Macedonian of the highest order.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Thanks Daskalot, it is a good thread which helps put into perspective some of the decisions made by Misirkov and the dominating circumstances at the time.

[pluto]

Misirkov indeed described himself few times as Macedonian Bulgarian. But we must consider the circumstance in which he lived and worked. He has many pro-macednian articles where he clearly separate Macedonians from Bulgarians, but also has few where he even states Macedonians and Bulgars are the same people.
He was strong Macedonian patriot and autonomist. Because of the fact that we become ruled my the Serbs after the Balkan wars, i think forced him to write strong anti-Serbian texts which sometimes look like pro-bulgarian. I'm writing about articles other that the article from the topic or the visionary book "Za Makedonckite raboti ". I believe also that he was forced to write those few pro-bulgarian texts because he was living in Bulgaria and was under enormous pressure by the authorities and we also know that his book was almost burned down completely.

I like what Risto said "he is an important Macedonian of the highest order."

[Bratot]

Sergej Misirkov wrote the introduction to the only surviving manuscript of his father Krste P. Misirkov which also represent his autobiography, titled "Memories and impressions".
This material thanks to Dr. Sergej Misirkov was delivered during his visit to the People's Republic of Macedonia in 1956.

His introductory note in the work of Krste P. Misirkov should encourage the Macedonian institutions to initiate a search for the remaining works and documents related to his work.


The document is available only in Macedonian version, I welcome every contribution for translating the whole:
http://macedonianspark.com/istorijai...-57-06?lang=mk

Pozdrav

[Bratot]

[Soldier of Macedon]

Below are some Macedonian demographic statistics from 1900 collected by Misirkov - they were presented in his magazine called 'Vardar'. Here is a brief summary from wikipedia:

Besides "On Macedonian Matters", Misirkov is author of the first scientific magazine on Macedonian language. The magazine "Vardar" was published in 1905 in Odessa, Russian Empire. The magazine was published only once, because of the financial problems that Misirkov had been facing with at that time. "Vardar" has been published on Macedonian language, and the orthography that has been used is almost same as the orthography of the standard Macedonian language.

The magazine was meant to include several different scientific disciplines, mostly concerned with Macedonia. The first section of the magazine is made of the introduction, where in general Misirkov elaborates the aims of the magazine and this section was in Macedonian and Russian. The next section of the magazine is the literary section, where Misirkov translated into Macedonian the poem "Traveler" by the Croatian poet P. Preradovic. After the literary section, the magazine includes an analysis about the Balkan propagandas in Macedonia, followed by a political analysis of some of the global events in that period. The last section is statistics, which shows the Macedonian population in Macedonia.

Notice the continued reference to Macedonians, along with Turks, and to a lesser extent Vlachs and some other groups. The statistics are by house number, and not by person.

[Daskalot]

Thank you SoM for posting this, can we find out if there are more statistics available or these are all published?

[Daskalot]

Can we source a full copy of the magazine Vardar?
Does anyone have a copy at home?

[Soldier of Macedon]

Daskale, there is a PDF version of the first edition on the wiki page for Misirkov. As the extracted paragraph states, it was published only once, apparently due to 'financial' problems. The dialect he uses in the magazine is the same as that in Macedonian Matters.