Antoaneta Kirilova

 

Assoc. Prof. DSc. Antoaneta Kirilova

May 22, 1968, Lom

kirilova_ani(at)abv(dot)bg; a_kirilova(at)ihist(dot)bas(dot)bg

ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-5407-0106

1. Scientific interests

Her scientific interests are in the field of Bulgarian history in the 18th and 19th centuries, with an emphasis on events, processes and transformations (in Bulgarian, Balkan and European contexts) that led to the modernization of Bulgarian society and the consolidation of the Bulgarian nation.

2. Academic career

Education

1995-1998 – full-time doctoral studies at the Institute of History – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

1988-1993 – Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski”, History – full-time study

Positions held

2000 – Research Associate II Degree – Institute of History – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Academic degree and title

2025 – Doctor of Historical Sciences

2009 – Senior Research Fellow II Degree/Associate Professor

2003 – Research Associate, 1st degree

2000 – Research Associate II Degree

1999 – Doctor of History

Memberships in editorial boards and publishing scientific councils

„Historical Review“ Magazine – (2012 – 2022)

3. PUBLICATIONS

A. Individual monographs:

  • Financing the Bulgarian National Revolutionary Movement 1868-1875. S., Academic Publishing House „Prof. Marin Drinov”, 2007, 212 p.

B. Studies and articles:

  • The Monastery „St. George Zograf” in the Enlightenment Movement of the Bulgarians during the Renaissance. – In: Mount Athos Zograf Monastery. S., Vol. II, 1996, 133-144.
  • On the material support of the Chetnik campaign of 1868. – Historical Review, 1998, No. 5-6, 20-44.
  • The supply of weapons during the events of 1867-1868 in the Balkans. – Military Historical Collection, 1999, No. 3, 7-23.
  • „The Eastern Direction of the People’s Army in 1867“ (Towards the History of Some Lesser-Known Units of 1867). – History, 1999, No. 2-3, 86-96.
  • Secret Central Bulgarian Committee – ideas and practices for material support of the national liberation movement (1866-1868). – In: In Search of Truth. Jubilee collection on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of Professor Nikolay Genchev. S., 2002, 175-188.
  • An initiative of the Bulgarian National Liberation Movement for material support of the Bulgarian national liberation movement (1867-1868). – Historical Review, 2002, No. 5-6, 166-183.
  • The Secret Central Bulgarian Committee and the Odessa Committee in 1867 – Bulgarian Revival. Ideas. Personalities. Events. Yearbook of the All-Bulgarian Committee „Vasil Levski”. S., 2004, vol. 6, 144-161.
  • Hristo Dryanovski – life and revolutionary activity (1838-1868). – Historical review. Jubilee edition on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the birth of Professor Krumka Sharova, 2004, No. 5-6, 361-373.
  • Some problems of the committee work in 1873 according to the correspondence of Panayot Hitov. – Bulgarian Revival. Ideas. Personalities. Events. Yearbook of the All-Bulgarian Committee „Vasil Levski”. S., 2005, vol. 7, 225-232.
  • The contribution of several committees to financing the revolutionary organization in 1873-1875. – Minalo, 2005, No. 3, 46-56.
  • Ideas for material support for the liberation cause on the eve of the establishment of the Bulgarian Red Army (July 1868-September 1869). – Bulletin of the State Archives, 2005, vol. 90, 3-18.
  • Problems surrounding the material support of Panayot Hitov’s detachment in 1867 – In: Panayot Hitov and the Bulgarian National Liberation Movement. Sliven, 2005, 163-175.
  • The financial condition of the treasury of the Bulgarian Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in 1872. – Scientific works of the Plovdiv University „Paisiy Hilendarski”, 2006, vol. 1, book 1, History, 269-282.
  • Hristo Nikolov Patrev in the struggles for national liberation. – Bulgarian Revival. Ideas. Personalities. Events. Yearbook of the All-Bulgarian Committee „Vasil Levski”. S., 2006, vol. 8, 204-220.
  • The material support of the city of Elena for the Internal Revolutionary Organization. – Bulgarian Historical Review. Studia In Honorem Professoris Virginiae Paskaleva, 2006, No. 1-2, 304-319.
  • From the relations of Rayko Zhinzifov with Bulgarians in Romania and Southern Russia (1960s-1970s). – Historical Review, 2006, No. 3-4, 245-262.
  • The revolutionary terror against the wealthy Bulgarians – the two concepts in the liberation cause of 1871-1872 – In: „Young” and „Old” in the Bulgarian Revival. Plovdiv, 2006, 149-160 (Yearbook of the Regional History Museum – Plovdiv, vol. 4).
  • On the relationship of Raiko Zhinzifov with Moscow Slavophiles and Slavic scholars. – Bulgarian Historical Review, 2007, № 1-2, 11-35.
  • The „Authorized Persons” for Fundraising – Levski’s Associates. – In: Associates and Associates of Vasil Levski. Lovech, 2007, 79-90.
  • Some notes on the issue of the treasury of the Bulgarian Red Cross Society in Lovech. – Historical review. Jubilee edition on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Nikolay Zhechev, 2007, No. 3-4, 223-243.
  • Nayden Gerov and the Bulgarian political initiatives during the Crimean War (1853-1856). – In: National liberation movements in the Bulgarian lands ХV-ХІХ centuries and their reflection in museums. Chiprovtsi, 2008, 79-83.
  • Opening of the Russian Consular Agency in Plovdiv in 1857. – Historical Review, 2009, No. 1-2, 48-76.
  • The socio-political activity of Najden Gerov (1853-1856). – Bulgarian Historical Review, 2009, № 1-2, 24-52.
  • The Committees from the Golyamoizvor District Center in the Material Provision of the Internal Revolutionary Organization. – In: Levski’s Time. Collection of Articles. Scientific Editor Assoc. Prof. Pl. Mitev. S., 2010, 161-197.
  • „Turkish espionage” among the Bulgarians in 1868-1869 and their revolutionary movement (some aspects of its financing). – In: Sine ira et studio. Studies in memory of Prof. Zina Markova. S., 2010, 211-226.
  • Georgi Simeonovich’s Testament for Educational Work. – Library, 2010, No. 2-3, 96-104.
  • Highlights from the establishment and initial activities of the women’s society „Education“ in Karlovo. – In: Education and Change. Collection in honor of the art. cor. senior researcher I senior doctor of history Rumyana Radkova and on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Bolgrad Gymnasium. S., 2010, 231-249.
  • The Donations of Protosingel Kiril Nektariev for the Cultural, Educational and Spiritual Upliftment of the Bulgarians during the Revival. – Historical Review, 2010, No. 3-4, 61-89.
  • The Virgin Monastery „Vavedenie Bogorodichno“ in Kazanlak during the Bulgarian National Revival (towards an idea for opening a school in the monastery). – Minalo, 2012, No. 4, 28-42.
  • Bulgarian Educational Work during the Bulgarian Renaissance. Rada Gugova (1848-1941). – In: History, Truth, Historian. Materials from the scientific conference „Movement of Ideas and Research on the Bulgarian Renaissance and History of Culture”, organized on November 2, 2011 by the Faculty of History and Philosophy of Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski”. Co-authors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nadya Manolova-Nikolova, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georgi Valchev. S., 2012, 118-131.
  • The Problems of the Bulgarian Revival in the Scientific Work of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ognyana Mazhdrakova-Chavdarova. – In: The Bulgarian Revival Society – Problems, Struggles and Achievements. Collection of Studies in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ognyana Mazhdrakova-Chavdarova. Compiled by Pl. Bozhinov and A. Kirilova. S., 2012, 9-32.
  • The Russian Liturgical Book in the Bulgarian Lands after the Crimean War (based on materials from the archive of Naiden Gerov). – Historical Review, 2012, No. 1-2, 3-36.
  • Russian Charity for Orthodox Churches in Sofia after the Crimean War (1853-1856). – Studies of the Institute for Historical Research. Vol. XXXI. Collection in Honor of Prof. Dr. Stefan Doinov. S., 2014, 201-214.
  • Nayden Gerov – a Bulgarian intellectual between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in support of the movement for national enlightenment (1857-1877). – In: „Intellectuals and/or in politics. Anniversary collection dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Prof. Dr. Rumen Genov with materials from a scientific conference with international participation.” – http://ebox.nbu.bg/profesorgenov/view_lesson.php?id=5
  • Bulgarian Educational Work during the Revival. Nayden Gerov and Donations for Education in the 19th Century. – Minalo, 2015, No. 1, 37-51.
  • Ivan Evstratiev Geshov as a Historian of the Church-National Movement. The Struggle for the Church of the Holy Virgin in Plovdiv. – Ivan Evstratiev Geshov – statesman, public figure, scientist, patron of Bulgarian science and culture. Plovdiv, 2014 [2015] (Annual of the Regional Historical Museum, 2014, vol. 9), 27-38.
  • Some notes on the issue of the first celebration of St. Cyril and Methodius in Plovdiv during the Bulgarian National Revival. – Minalo, 2016, No. 2, 8-14.
  • Russian policy for Bulgarian education after the Crimean War. – Scientific Bulletin of the Mykolaiv National University named after V. O. Sukhomlinsky. Historical Sciences. No. 1 (41), 2016, 83-90.
  • Russian Charity for Bulgarian Monasteries after the Crimean War (a look through the documentary heritage of Nayden Gerov). – In: Third International Congress of Bulgarian Studies. May 23-26, 2013. Section „History and Archaeology”. Subsection „Bulgarian Lands and Bulgarians, 15th-19th Centuries”, Sofia, 2014 [2016], 95-121.
  • The Donor Kozma Trichkov. – Historical Review, 2015 [2017], No. 1-2, 187-215.
  • Nayden Gerov and Dragan Tsankov in the labyrinths of the Question: the Bulgarian Union. – Historical Review, 2015 [2017], No. 3-4, 269-310.
  • Nayden Gerov and the Bulgarian national movement in Plovdiv in the 1850s. – Proceedings of the Institute for Historical Research. Vol. XXXIV. The role of elites in the processes of the consolidation of nations and national construction. S., 2017, 62-88.
  • Dorotheus, Bishop of Vratsa and Metropolitan of Sofia – a Bulgarian archpastor in the hierarchy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and in the Bulgarian church struggles. – In: The Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire, 19th century: concepts, structures, personalities. Compiled and edited by Vanya Racheva. S., 2017, 251-294.
  • „People’s organ, what it should be“. An episode from the history of pre-liberation Bulgarian journalism. – Historical Future, 2017, No. 1-2, 80-116.
  • Bulgarian Educational Work during the Revival. The Town of Lom and Its Schools in the 1940s-1970s. – In: Studies and Materials on Vidin and the Region. Vol. III. Compiled and Scientifically Edited by Plamen Mitev, Vanya Racheva. S., 2018, 177-208.
  • Church-national struggles in Sofia until the rejection of the authority of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. – Historical Review, 2018, vol. 1, 22-78.
  • Aspects of the prehistory of the Chetnik initiative in 1868: organizational preparation and material support. – Collection. The United Detachment of Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadjata (1868). Materials from the National Scientific Conference, organized on July 6, 2018 at Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski”. Compilation and scientific editing Plamen Pavlov and Plamen Mitev. S., 2019, 29-58.
  • Bulgarians in big politics: Nayden Gerov in the „Bulgarian“ context of 1867 – Historical Review, 2019, vol. 2, pp. 37-74.
  • On the history of one diplomatic document from 1867: Bulgarians in big politics. – Bulgarian Historical Review, 2019, No. 3-4, 53-106.
  • Nayden Gerov and Nikolay P. Ignatiev in the labyrinths of the Eastern Question: the Bulgarian national movement and Russian state policy (1864-1872). – Historical Review, 2021, vol. 1, 103-139.
  • Ideas and practices in financing the First Bulgarian Legion in Belgrade in 1861-1862 – Dzialo, e-journal for the humanities, year IX, 2021, issue XIX.
  • From the everyday life of a city in the Ottoman Empire during the Tanzimat era: Bulgarians in Sofia in the mid-19th century. – Proceedings of the Institute for Historical Research. Vol. XXXVI. Everyday life of empires. Middle Ages – XX century. Materials from a scientific conference dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, held on November 27-28, 2019. S., 2021, 151-190.
  • The Russian Liturgical Book in the Bulgarian Lands after the Crimean War (based on materials from the archive of Naiden Gerov). Part II. – Historical Review, 2021, vol. 4, 181-191.
  • Again about the relations between Vasil Levski and Nayden Gerov (In the light of documentary evidence and historiographic interpretations). – New documents and research. 2. Vasil Levski. Chetnik actions and the committee case 1867-1873. Sofia – Karlovo, 2022, 104-127.
  • Kirilova, A. The Town of Karlovo in the Personal and Professional Biography of Nayden Gerov: Contacts, Networks, Influences (1856–1878). – Maria Baramova, Plamen Mitev, Ivan Parvev (Eds.). Regional Networks in Context. Economy and Trade in the Lower Danube Balkans of the 19th. LiT Verlag: Münster/ Berlin 2023, 47-60.
  • Touches on the public activity of Nayden Gerov in the 1950s – 1970s. – In: Nayden Gerov and the spiritual dimensions of the Bulgarian Revival. Collection of materials from the National Scientific Conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Nayden Gerov (Koprivshtitsa, February 23-24, 2023). Sofia: Effect Advertising EOOD, 2023, 11-27.
  • Nayden Gerov (1823-1900). The Spiritual Dimensions of the Bulgarian Revival. – In: Nayden Gerov and the Spiritual Dimensions of the Bulgarian Revival. Collection of materials from the National Scientific Conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Nayden Gerov (Koprivshtitsa, February 23-24, 2023). Sofia: Effect Advertising EOOD, 2023, 7-8 (introductory words).
  • The idea of ​​a central school in the educational concepts of Nayden Gerov (1850-1877). – Historical Review, 2024, vol. 1, 39-70.
  • The reform policy of the Ottoman Empire after Hatihumayun in 1856 through the eyes of the Russian vice-consul in Plovdiv Nayden Gerov. – Proceedings of the Institute for Historical Research, vol. 40, 2025, 106-140.

C. Scientific information, opinions, reviews:

  • Russia and the Bulgarian National Liberation Movement 1856/1876. S., Vol. III, 2002, 587 p. – Historical Review, 2003, No. 5-6, 258-261.
  • Senior Researcher II degree Dr. Ognyana Mazhdrakova-Chavdarova at 70 years old. – Historical Review, 2006, No. 5-6, 223-227.
  • Bibliography of the works of Prof. Dr. Nikolay Zhechev – Historical Review, 2007, No. 3-4, 18-48.
  • Jubilee National Scientific Conference „The National Liberation Movement in the Bulgarian Lands in the 15th-19th Centuries and Their Reflection in Museums”, September 12-13, 2008, Chiprovtsi. – Historical Review, 2008, No. 5-6, 288-290.
  • Documents from the Archives of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire on the Activities of the Consulate General of Russia in Ruse (1865-1877). Researched, prepared, compiled and notes by Ivo Zheynov. Ruse, 2009, 270 p. – Historical Review, 2010, No. 3-4, 239-242.
  • Valuable sources for Bulgarian history in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Book review: Rumyana Radkova, Theodosi Radkov. Posthumous materials for Bulgarian revival figures. Vol. IV. Sofia, 2021. 694 p. – Historical Review, 2022, vol. 4, 160-164.
  • Elena Kostova, Antoaneta Kirilova, Angel Zlatkov. History, memory, change. Collection in honor of Prof. Angel Dimitrov. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – Institute for Historical Studies, 2022, 643 p. – Dzyalo, e-journal for the humanities, 2023, issue XXV.
  • A new contribution to the study of philanthropy in the Bulgarian lands. Review of the book „Gift and Charity in Bulgaria – Traditions and Modernity. Collection of Papers. Haskovo, 2024“. – Historical Review, 2025, vol. 2, 203-207.

D. Compilation and editing

  • Historical Review. Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Professor Nikolay Zhechev, 2007, No. 3-4, (ed.).
  • The Bulgarian Renaissance Society – Problems, Struggles and Achievements. Collection of Research in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ognyana Mazhdrakova-Chavdarova. Compiled by Pl. Bozhinov and A. Kirilova. S., 2012 (ed., co-ed.).
  • Ukraine and Bulgaria in the History of Europe. Collection of Scientific Papers. Kyiv – Sofia. 2019.
  • Nayden Gerov and the spiritual dimensions of the Bulgarian Renaissance. Collection of materials from the National Scientific Conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Nayden Gerov (Koprivshtitsa, February 23-24, 2023). Sofia: Effect Advertising EOOD, 2023 (scientific editor, compiler).
  • 150 years of immortality. Vasil Levski, the revolution and the future world. Collection of materials from a scientific conference held at Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“, February 6, 2023. Sofia: Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences „Prof. Marin Drinov“, 2024 (editor).

4. PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC FORUMS:

  • Panayot Hitov and the Bulgarian National Liberation Movement, October 31 – November 1, 2002, Sliven – Problems surrounding the material support of Panayot Hitov’s detachment in 1867.
  • 10 years of historical education at the „Paisiy Hilendarski” University, 10 years of the Department of History, November 2-3, 2004, Plovdiv – The financial situation of the treasury of the Bulgarian Red Cross in 1872.
  • The April Uprising in Northern Bulgaria, May 13, 2006, Dryanovo Monastery – Hristo Patrev – the voivode of the Tryavna detachment in the April Uprising of 1876.
  • „Young“ and „old“ in the Bulgarian Renaissance, October 10-11, 2006, Plovdiv – The revolutionary terror against the wealthy Bulgarians – the two concepts in the liberation cause (1871-1872).
  • Associates and associates of Vasil Levski, May 29-30, 2007, Lovech – The authorized persons for collecting funds – associates of Levski.
  • Vasil Levski and the first district revolutionary committee in Golyam Izvor, July 14, 2007, Golyam Izvor – The committees from the Golyam Izvor district center in the material provision of the Internal Revolutionary Organization.
  • The National Liberation Movements in the Bulgarian Lands of the 15th-19th Centuries and Their Reflection in Museums, September 12-13, 2008, Chiprovtsi. – Nayden Gerov and the Bulgarian Socio-Political Initiatives at the Beginning of the Crimean War (1853-1854).
  • 385 years of educational work in Chiprovtsi, October 22, 2009, Chiprovtsi – Nayden Gerov and educational work in Sofia (late 1950s – early 1960s).
  • International Interdisciplinary Round Table „Enlightenment and Change“. Dedicated to the historical role and significance of the Bolgrad High School for the development of Bulgarian identity, 23-24 November 2009, Sofia. – Highlights from the establishment and initial activities of the women’s society „Vazpitanie“ in Karlovo.
  • The Intellectual and/in Power. – New Bulgarian University, Sofia, April 29-30, 2011. – Nayden Gerov – a Bulgarian intellectual between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in support of the movement for national enlightenment (1857-1877).
  • Movement of ideas and research on the Bulgarian Renaissance and history of culture. Scientific conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of the prominent Bulgarian historian, teacher and public figure Prof. Nikolay Genchev. – Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski”, November 2, 2011. – Bulgarian educational work during the Renaissance. A look at the life path of a Bulgarian teacher. Rada Gugova (1848-1941).
  • 135 years later: Bulgaria – Russia – Eurasia. International conference, Sofia, February 27 – March 1, 2013. – Russian policy for Bulgarian education after the Crimean War.
  • Third International Congress of Bulgarian Studies, May 23-26, 2013. – Russia and Bulgarian Monasteries after the Crimean War (a look through the documentary heritage of Naiden Gerov).
  • Bulgarian Education Through the Ages, Chiprovtsi, September 5, 2014 – The personal archive of Nayden Gerov as a source of information about Bulgarian educational work in the third quarter of the 19th century.
  • National Scientific Conference „Academician Ivan Evstratiev Geshov (1849-1924) – statesman, public figure and scientist, patron of Bulgarian science and culture“. Plovdiv, November 6-7, 2014 – Ivan Evstr. Geshov as a historian of the movement for church-national independence. The struggle for the church „St. Bogoroditsa“ in Plovdiv.
  • National Scientific Conference „The Role and Place of the Legions in the Bulgarian National Revolution“. Chiprovtsi, September 9-10, 2016 – First Bulgarian Legion (1861-1862) – ideas and practical experience in financing the national revolution.
  • Round table „Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire, 19th century: concepts, structures, personalities.“ Velingrad, November 19, 2016 – Dorotheus, Bishop of Vratsa and Metropolitan of Sofia – a Bulgarian archpastor in the hierarchy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and in the Bulgarian church struggles.
  • International scientific conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Ukraine „Bulgaria and Ukraine in the history of Europe“. Sofia, June 18-19, 2018 – Information about Todor Minkov’s South Slavic boarding school in Nikolaev and about its graduates in Bulgarian archives.
  • National Scientific Conference „150 Years of the Deed of the Detachment of Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha“. Sofia University, July 6, 2018. – Aspects of the Prehistory of the Chetnik Movement in 1868: Organizational and Material Provision.
  • The Everyday Life of Empires. From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. National conference organized by the Institute for Historical Research – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. November 27-28, 2019, Sofia. – From the everyday life of a city in the Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat era: Bulgarians in Sofia in the mid-19th century.
  • National Round Table „Vasil Levski, Chetnik Actions and the Committee Work 1867-1873“ National Museum „Vasil Levski“, Karlovo, February 18, 2022 – Again about the relations between Vasil Levski and Nayden Gerov (in the light of documentary evidence and historiographic interpretations).
  • Scientific conference „Networks and mechanisms of influence in regional politics, economics and culture“. Sofia University, May 19, 2022. – The city of Karlovo in the personal and professional biography of Nayden Gerov: contacts, networks, influences (1856-1878).
  • National Scientific Conference „150 Years of Immortality: Vasil Levski, the Revolution and the Future World“. Sofia University-BAS, February 6, 2023 – Again about the strategy and tactics of the Chetnik movement in the 1860s.
  • National Scientific Conference „Nayden Gerov and the Spiritual Dimensions of the Bulgarian Revival“. Koprivshtitsa, February 23-24, 2023. – Touches on the public activity of Nayden Gerov in the 1850s – 1870s of the 19th century.
  • National Scientific Conference „Traditions and Modernity: Bulgarian Society in the „Long 19th Century“, Institute for Historical Studies – BAS, October 5-6, 2023 – Russian Diplomats in the Balkans on the Reform Policy of the Ottoman Empire after the Crimean War and Hatihumayun (1853-1856).