{"id":14117,"date":"2025-07-02T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/?page_id=14117"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:12:07","slug":"antoaneta-kirilova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/academic-staff\/antoaneta-kirilova\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoaneta Kirilova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Assoc. Prof. DSc. <strong>Antoaneta Kirilova<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 22, 1968, Lom<\/p>\n<p>kirilova_ani(at)abv(dot)bg; a_kirilova(at)ihist(dot)bas(dot)bg<\/p>\n<p>ORCiD ID: <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5407-0106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0000-0002-5407-0106<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>1. Scientific interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2. Academic career<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>1995-1998 \u2013 full-time doctoral studies at the Institute of History \u2013 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n<p>1988-1993 \u2013 Sofia University \u201eSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d, History \u2013 full-time study<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Positions held<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>2000 \u2013 Research Associate II Degree \u2013 Institute of History \u2013 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Academic degree and title<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>2025 \u2013 Doctor of Historical Sciences<\/p>\n<p>2009 \u2013 Senior Research Fellow II Degree\/Associate Professor<\/p>\n<p>2003 \u2013 Research Associate, 1st degree<\/p>\n<p>2000 \u2013 Research Associate II Degree<\/p>\n<p>1999 \u2013 Doctor of History<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Memberships in editorial boards and publishing scientific councils<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u201eHistorical Review\u201c Magazine \u2013 (2012 \u2013 2022)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>A. Individual monographs:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Financing the Bulgarian National Revolutionary Movement 1868-1875. S., Academic Publishing House \u201eProf. Marin Drinov\u201d, 2007, 212 p.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>B. Studies and articles:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The Monastery \u201eSt. George Zograf\u201d in the Enlightenment Movement of the Bulgarians during the Renaissance. \u2013 In: Mount Athos Zograf Monastery. S., Vol. II, 1996, 133-144.<\/li>\n<li>On the material support of the Chetnik campaign of 1868. \u2013 Historical Review, 1998, No. 5-6, 20-44.<\/li>\n<li>The supply of weapons during the events of 1867-1868 in the Balkans. \u2013 Military Historical Collection, 1999, No. 3, 7-23.<\/li>\n<li>\u201eThe Eastern Direction of the People&#8217;s Army in 1867\u201c (Towards the History of Some Lesser-Known Units of 1867). \u2013 History, 1999, No. 2-3, 86-96.<\/li>\n<li>Secret Central Bulgarian Committee \u2013 ideas and practices for material support of the national liberation movement (1866-1868). \u2013 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.<\/li>\n<li>An initiative of the Bulgarian National Liberation Movement for material support of the Bulgarian national liberation movement (1867-1868). \u2013 Historical Review, 2002, No. 5-6, 166-183.<\/li>\n<li>The Secret Central Bulgarian Committee and the Odessa Committee in 1867 \u2013 Bulgarian Revival. Ideas. Personalities. Events. Yearbook of the All-Bulgarian Committee \u201eVasil Levski\u201d. S., 2004, vol. 6, 144-161.<\/li>\n<li>Hristo Dryanovski \u2013 life and revolutionary activity (1838-1868). \u2013 Historical review. Jubilee edition on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the birth of Professor Krumka Sharova, 2004, No. 5-6, 361-373.<\/li>\n<li>Some problems of the committee work in 1873 according to the correspondence of Panayot Hitov. \u2013 Bulgarian Revival. Ideas. Personalities. Events. Yearbook of the All-Bulgarian Committee \u201eVasil Levski\u201d. S., 2005, vol. 7, 225-232.<\/li>\n<li>The contribution of several committees to financing the revolutionary organization in 1873-1875. \u2013 Minalo, 2005, No. 3, 46-56.<\/li>\n<li>Ideas for material support for the liberation cause on the eve of the establishment of the Bulgarian Red Army (July 1868-September 1869). \u2013 Bulletin of the State Archives, 2005, vol. 90, 3-18.<\/li>\n<li>Problems surrounding the material support of Panayot Hitov&#8217;s detachment in 1867 \u2013 In: Panayot Hitov and the Bulgarian National Liberation Movement. Sliven, 2005, 163-175.<\/li>\n<li>The financial condition of the treasury of the Bulgarian Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in 1872. \u2013 Scientific works of the Plovdiv University \u201ePaisiy Hilendarski\u201d, 2006, vol. 1, book 1, History, 269-282.<\/li>\n<li>Hristo Nikolov Patrev in the struggles for national liberation. \u2013 Bulgarian Revival. Ideas. Personalities. Events. Yearbook of the All-Bulgarian Committee \u201eVasil Levski\u201d. S., 2006, vol. 8, 204-220.<\/li>\n<li>The material support of the city of Elena for the Internal Revolutionary Organization. \u2013 Bulgarian Historical Review. Studia In Honorem Professoris Virginiae Paskaleva, 2006, No. 1-2, 304-319.<\/li>\n<li>From the relations of Rayko Zhinzifov with Bulgarians in Romania and Southern Russia (1960s-1970s). \u2013 Historical Review, 2006, No. 3-4, 245-262.<\/li>\n<li>The revolutionary terror against the wealthy Bulgarians \u2013 the two concepts in the liberation cause of 1871-1872 \u2013 In: \u201eYoung\u201d and \u201eOld\u201d in the Bulgarian Revival. Plovdiv, 2006, 149-160 (Yearbook of the Regional History Museum \u2013 Plovdiv, vol. 4).<\/li>\n<li>On the relationship of Raiko Zhinzifov with Moscow Slavophiles and Slavic scholars. \u2013 Bulgarian Historical Review, 2007, \u2116 1-2, 11-35.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201eAuthorized Persons\u201d for Fundraising \u2013 Levski\u2019s Associates. \u2013 In: Associates and Associates of Vasil Levski. Lovech, 2007, 79-90.<\/li>\n<li>Some notes on the issue of the treasury of the Bulgarian Red Cross Society in Lovech. \u2013 Historical review. Jubilee edition on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Nikolay Zhechev, 2007, No. 3-4, 223-243.<\/li>\n<li>Nayden Gerov and the Bulgarian political initiatives during the Crimean War (1853-1856). \u2013 In: National liberation movements in the Bulgarian lands \u0425V-\u0425\u0406\u0425 centuries and their reflection in museums. Chiprovtsi, 2008, 79-83.<\/li>\n<li>Opening of the Russian Consular Agency in Plovdiv in 1857. \u2013 Historical Review, 2009, No. 1-2, 48-76.<\/li>\n<li>The socio-political activity of Najden Gerov (1853-1856). \u2013 Bulgarian Historical Review, 2009, \u2116 1-2, 24-52.<\/li>\n<li>The Committees from the Golyamoizvor District Center in the Material Provision of the Internal Revolutionary Organization. \u2013 In: Levski&#8217;s Time. Collection of Articles. Scientific Editor Assoc. Prof. Pl. Mitev. S., 2010, 161-197.<\/li>\n<li>\u201eTurkish espionage\u201d among the Bulgarians in 1868-1869 and their revolutionary movement (some aspects of its financing). \u2013 In: Sine ira et studio. Studies in memory of Prof. Zina Markova. S., 2010, 211-226.<\/li>\n<li>Georgi Simeonovich&#8217;s Testament for Educational Work. \u2013 Library, 2010, No. 2-3, 96-104.<\/li>\n<li>Highlights from the establishment and initial activities of the women&#8217;s society \u201eEducation\u201c in Karlovo. \u2013 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.<\/li>\n<li>The Donations of Protosingel Kiril Nektariev for the Cultural, Educational and Spiritual Upliftment of the Bulgarians during the Revival. \u2013 Historical Review, 2010, No. 3-4, 61-89.<\/li>\n<li>The Virgin Monastery \u201eVavedenie Bogorodichno\u201c in Kazanlak during the Bulgarian National Revival (towards an idea for opening a school in the monastery). \u2013 Minalo, 2012, No. 4, 28-42.<\/li>\n<li>Bulgarian Educational Work during the Bulgarian Renaissance. Rada Gugova (1848-1941). \u2013 In: History, Truth, Historian. Materials from the scientific conference \u201eMovement of Ideas and Research on the Bulgarian Renaissance and History of Culture\u201d, organized on November 2, 2011 by the Faculty of History and Philosophy of Sofia University \u201eSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d. Co-authors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nadya Manolova-Nikolova, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georgi Valchev. S., 2012, 118-131.<\/li>\n<li>The Problems of the Bulgarian Revival in the Scientific Work of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ognyana Mazhdrakova-Chavdarova. \u2013 In: The Bulgarian Revival Society \u2013 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.<\/li>\n<li>The Russian Liturgical Book in the Bulgarian Lands after the Crimean War (based on materials from the archive of Naiden Gerov). \u2013 Historical Review, 2012, No. 1-2, 3-36.<\/li>\n<li>Russian Charity for Orthodox Churches in Sofia after the Crimean War (1853-1856). \u2013 Studies of the Institute for Historical Research. Vol. XXXI. Collection in Honor of Prof. Dr. Stefan Doinov. S., 2014, 201-214.<\/li>\n<li>Nayden Gerov \u2013 a Bulgarian intellectual between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in support of the movement for national enlightenment (1857-1877). \u2013 In: \u201eIntellectuals 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.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ebox.nbu.bg\/profesorgenov\/view_lesson.php?id=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ebox.nbu.bg\/profesorgenov\/view_lesson.php?id=5<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bulgarian Educational Work during the Revival. Nayden Gerov and Donations for Education in the 19th Century. \u2013 Minalo, 2015, No. 1, 37-51.<\/li>\n<li>Ivan Evstratiev Geshov as a Historian of the Church-National Movement. The Struggle for the Church of the Holy Virgin in Plovdiv. \u2013 Ivan Evstratiev Geshov \u2013 statesman, public figure, scientist, patron of Bulgarian science and culture. Plovdiv, 2014 [2015] (Annual of the Regional Historical Museum, 2014, vol. 9), 27-38.<\/li>\n<li>Some notes on the issue of the first celebration of St. Cyril and Methodius in Plovdiv during the Bulgarian National Revival. \u2013 Minalo, 2016, No. 2, 8-14.<\/li>\n<li>Russian policy for Bulgarian education after the Crimean War. \u2013 Scientific Bulletin of the Mykolaiv National University named after V. O. Sukhomlinsky. Historical Sciences. No. 1 (41), 2016, 83-90.<\/li>\n<li>Russian Charity for Bulgarian Monasteries after the Crimean War (a look through the documentary heritage of Nayden Gerov). \u2013 In: Third International Congress of Bulgarian Studies. May 23-26, 2013. Section \u201eHistory and Archaeology\u201d. Subsection \u201eBulgarian Lands and Bulgarians, 15th-19th Centuries\u201d, Sofia, 2014 [2016], 95-121.<\/li>\n<li>The Donor Kozma Trichkov. \u2013 Historical Review, 2015 [2017], No. 1-2, 187-215.<\/li>\n<li>Nayden Gerov and Dragan Tsankov in the labyrinths of the Question: the Bulgarian Union. \u2013 Historical Review, 2015 [2017], No. 3-4, 269-310.<\/li>\n<li>Nayden Gerov and the Bulgarian national movement in Plovdiv in the 1850s. \u2013 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.<\/li>\n<li>Dorotheus, Bishop of Vratsa and Metropolitan of Sofia \u2013 a Bulgarian archpastor in the hierarchy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and in the Bulgarian church struggles. \u2013 In: The Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire, 19th century: concepts, structures, personalities. Compiled and edited by Vanya Racheva. S., 2017, 251-294.<\/li>\n<li>\u201ePeople&#8217;s organ, what it should be\u201c. An episode from the history of pre-liberation Bulgarian journalism. \u2013 Historical Future, 2017, No. 1-2, 80-116.<\/li>\n<li>Bulgarian Educational Work during the Revival. The Town of Lom and Its Schools in the 1940s-1970s. \u2013 In: Studies and Materials on Vidin and the Region. Vol. III. Compiled and Scientifically Edited by Plamen Mitev, Vanya Racheva. S., 2018, 177-208.<\/li>\n<li>Church-national struggles in Sofia until the rejection of the authority of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. \u2013 Historical Review, 2018, vol. 1, 22-78.<\/li>\n<li>Aspects of the prehistory of the Chetnik initiative in 1868: organizational preparation and material support. \u2013 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 \u201eSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d. Compilation and scientific editing Plamen Pavlov and Plamen Mitev. S., 2019, 29-58.<\/li>\n<li>Bulgarians in big politics: Nayden Gerov in the \u201eBulgarian\u201c context of 1867 \u2013 Historical Review, 2019, vol. 2, pp. 37-74.<\/li>\n<li>On the history of one diplomatic document from 1867: Bulgarians in big politics. \u2013 Bulgarian Historical Review, 2019, No. 3-4, 53-106.<\/li>\n<li>Nayden Gerov and Nikolay P. Ignatiev in the labyrinths of the Eastern Question: the Bulgarian national movement and Russian state policy (1864-1872). \u2013 Historical Review, 2021, vol. 1, 103-139.<\/li>\n<li>Ideas and practices in financing the First Bulgarian Legion in Belgrade in 1861-1862 \u2013 Dzialo, e-journal for the humanities, year IX, 2021, issue XIX.<\/li>\n<li>From the everyday life of a city in the Ottoman Empire during the Tanzimat era: Bulgarians in Sofia in the mid-19th century. \u2013 Proceedings of the Institute for Historical Research. Vol. XXXVI. Everyday life of empires. Middle Ages \u2013 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.<\/li>\n<li>The Russian Liturgical Book in the Bulgarian Lands after the Crimean War (based on materials from the archive of Naiden Gerov). Part II. \u2013 Historical Review, 2021, vol. 4, 181-191.<\/li>\n<li>Again about the relations between Vasil Levski and Nayden Gerov (In the light of documentary evidence and historiographic interpretations). \u2013 New documents and research. 2. Vasil Levski. Chetnik actions and the committee case 1867-1873. Sofia \u2013 Karlovo, 2022, 104-127.<\/li>\n<li>Kirilova, A. The Town of Karlovo in the Personal and Professional Biography of Nayden Gerov: Contacts, Networks, Influences (1856\u20131878). \u2013 Maria Baramova, Plamen Mitev, Ivan Parvev (Eds.). Regional Networks in Context. Economy and Trade in the Lower Danube Balkans of the 19th. LiT Verlag: M\u00fcnster\/ Berlin 2023, 47-60.<\/li>\n<li>Touches on the public activity of Nayden Gerov in the 1950s \u2013 1970s. \u2013 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.<\/li>\n<li>Nayden Gerov (1823-1900). The Spiritual Dimensions of the Bulgarian Revival. \u2013 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).<\/li>\n<li>The idea of \u200b\u200ba central school in the educational concepts of Nayden Gerov (1850-1877). \u2013 Historical Review, 2024, vol. 1, 39-70.<\/li>\n<li>The reform policy of the Ottoman Empire after Hatihumayun in 1856 through the eyes of the Russian vice-consul in Plovdiv Nayden Gerov. \u2013 Proceedings of the Institute for Historical Research, vol. 40, 2025, 106-140.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>C. Scientific information, opinions, reviews:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Russia and the Bulgarian National Liberation Movement 1856\/1876. S., Vol. III, 2002, 587 p. \u2013 Historical Review, 2003, No. 5-6, 258-261.<\/li>\n<li>Senior Researcher II degree Dr. Ognyana Mazhdrakova-Chavdarova at 70 years old. \u2013 Historical Review, 2006, No. 5-6, 223-227.<\/li>\n<li>Bibliography of the works of Prof. Dr. Nikolay Zhechev \u2013 Historical Review, 2007, No. 3-4, 18-48.<\/li>\n<li>Jubilee National Scientific Conference \u201eThe National Liberation Movement in the Bulgarian Lands in the 15th-19th Centuries and Their Reflection in Museums\u201d, September 12-13, 2008, Chiprovtsi. \u2013 Historical Review, 2008, No. 5-6, 288-290.<\/li>\n<li>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. \u2013 Historical Review, 2010, No. 3-4, 239-242.<\/li>\n<li>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. \u2013 Historical Review, 2022, vol. 4, 160-164.<\/li>\n<li>Elena Kostova, Antoaneta Kirilova, Angel Zlatkov. History, memory, change. Collection in honor of Prof. Angel Dimitrov. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences \u2013 Institute for Historical Studies, 2022, 643 p. \u2013 Dzyalo, e-journal for the humanities, 2023, issue XXV.<\/li>\n<li>A new contribution to the study of philanthropy in the Bulgarian lands. Review of the book \u201eGift and Charity in Bulgaria \u2013 Traditions and Modernity. Collection of Papers. Haskovo, 2024\u201c. \u2013 Historical Review, 2025, vol. 2, 203-207.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>D. Compilation and editing<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Historical Review. Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Professor Nikolay Zhechev, 2007, No. 3-4, (ed.).<\/li>\n<li>The Bulgarian Renaissance Society \u2013 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.).<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine and Bulgaria in the History of Europe. Collection of Scientific Papers. Kyiv \u2013 Sofia. 2019.<\/li>\n<li>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).<\/li>\n<li>150 years of immortality. Vasil Levski, the revolution and the future world. Collection of materials from a scientific conference held at Sofia University \u201eSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201c, February 6, 2023. Sofia: Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences \u201eProf. Marin Drinov\u201c, 2024 (editor).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>4. PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC FORUMS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Panayot Hitov and the Bulgarian National Liberation Movement, October 31 \u2013 November 1, 2002, Sliven \u2013 Problems surrounding the material support of Panayot Hitov&#8217;s detachment in 1867.<\/li>\n<li>10 years of historical education at the \u201ePaisiy Hilendarski\u201d University, 10 years of the Department of History, November 2-3, 2004, Plovdiv \u2013 The financial situation of the treasury of the Bulgarian Red Cross in 1872.<\/li>\n<li>The April Uprising in Northern Bulgaria, May 13, 2006, Dryanovo Monastery \u2013 Hristo Patrev \u2013 the voivode of the Tryavna detachment in the April Uprising of 1876.<\/li>\n<li>\u201eYoung\u201c and \u201eold\u201c in the Bulgarian Renaissance, October 10-11, 2006, Plovdiv \u2013 The revolutionary terror against the wealthy Bulgarians \u2013 the two concepts in the liberation cause (1871-1872).<\/li>\n<li>Associates and associates of Vasil Levski, May 29-30, 2007, Lovech \u2013 The authorized persons for collecting funds \u2013 associates of Levski.<\/li>\n<li>Vasil Levski and the first district revolutionary committee in Golyam Izvor, July 14, 2007, Golyam Izvor \u2013 The committees from the Golyam Izvor district center in the material provision of the Internal Revolutionary Organization.<\/li>\n<li>The National Liberation Movements in the Bulgarian Lands of the 15th-19th Centuries and Their Reflection in Museums, September 12-13, 2008, Chiprovtsi. \u2013 Nayden Gerov and the Bulgarian Socio-Political Initiatives at the Beginning of the Crimean War (1853-1854).<\/li>\n<li>385 years of educational work in Chiprovtsi, October 22, 2009, Chiprovtsi \u2013 Nayden Gerov and educational work in Sofia (late 1950s \u2013 early 1960s).<\/li>\n<li>International Interdisciplinary Round Table \u201eEnlightenment and Change\u201c. Dedicated to the historical role and significance of the Bolgrad High School for the development of Bulgarian identity, 23-24 November 2009, Sofia. \u2013 Highlights from the establishment and initial activities of the women&#8217;s society \u201eVazpitanie\u201c in Karlovo.<\/li>\n<li>The Intellectual and\/in Power. \u2013 New Bulgarian University, Sofia, April 29-30, 2011. \u2013 Nayden Gerov \u2013 a Bulgarian intellectual between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in support of the movement for national enlightenment (1857-1877).<\/li>\n<li>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. \u2013 Sofia University \u201eSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d, November 2, 2011. \u2013 Bulgarian educational work during the Renaissance. A look at the life path of a Bulgarian teacher. Rada Gugova (1848-1941).<\/li>\n<li>135 years later: Bulgaria \u2013 Russia \u2013 Eurasia. International conference, Sofia, February 27 \u2013 March 1, 2013. \u2013 Russian policy for Bulgarian education after the Crimean War.<\/li>\n<li>Third International Congress of Bulgarian Studies, May 23-26, 2013. \u2013 Russia and Bulgarian Monasteries after the Crimean War (a look through the documentary heritage of Naiden Gerov).<\/li>\n<li>Bulgarian Education Through the Ages, Chiprovtsi, September 5, 2014 \u2013 The personal archive of Nayden Gerov as a source of information about Bulgarian educational work in the third quarter of the 19th century.<\/li>\n<li>National Scientific Conference \u201eAcademician Ivan Evstratiev Geshov (1849-1924) \u2013 statesman, public figure and scientist, patron of Bulgarian science and culture\u201c. Plovdiv, November 6-7, 2014 \u2013 Ivan Evstr. Geshov as a historian of the movement for church-national independence. The struggle for the church \u201eSt. Bogoroditsa\u201c in Plovdiv.<\/li>\n<li>National Scientific Conference \u201eThe Role and Place of the Legions in the Bulgarian National Revolution\u201c. Chiprovtsi, September 9-10, 2016 \u2013 First Bulgarian Legion (1861-1862) \u2013 ideas and practical experience in financing the national revolution.<\/li>\n<li>Round table \u201eBulgarians in the Ottoman Empire, 19th century: concepts, structures, personalities.\u201c Velingrad, November 19, 2016 \u2013 Dorotheus, Bishop of Vratsa and Metropolitan of Sofia \u2013 a Bulgarian archpastor in the hierarchy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and in the Bulgarian church struggles.<\/li>\n<li>International scientific conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Ukraine \u201eBulgaria and Ukraine in the history of Europe\u201c. Sofia, June 18-19, 2018 \u2013 Information about Todor Minkov&#8217;s South Slavic boarding school in Nikolaev and about its graduates in Bulgarian archives.<\/li>\n<li>National Scientific Conference \u201e150 Years of the Deed of the Detachment of Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha\u201c. Sofia University, July 6, 2018. \u2013 Aspects of the Prehistory of the Chetnik Movement in 1868: Organizational and Material Provision.<\/li>\n<li>The Everyday Life of Empires. From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. National conference organized by the Institute for Historical Research \u2013 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. November 27-28, 2019, Sofia. \u2013 From the everyday life of a city in the Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat era: Bulgarians in Sofia in the mid-19th century.<\/li>\n<li>National Round Table \u201eVasil Levski, Chetnik Actions and the Committee Work 1867-1873\u201c National Museum \u201eVasil Levski\u201c, Karlovo, February 18, 2022 \u2013 Again about the relations between Vasil Levski and Nayden Gerov (in the light of documentary evidence and historiographic interpretations).<\/li>\n<li>Scientific conference \u201eNetworks and mechanisms of influence in regional politics, economics and culture\u201c. Sofia University, May 19, 2022. \u2013 The city of Karlovo in the personal and professional biography of Nayden Gerov: contacts, networks, influences (1856-1878).<\/li>\n<li>National Scientific Conference \u201e150 Years of Immortality: Vasil Levski, the Revolution and the Future World\u201c. Sofia University-BAS, February 6, 2023 \u2013 Again about the strategy and tactics of the Chetnik movement in the 1860s.<\/li>\n<li>National Scientific Conference \u201eNayden Gerov and the Spiritual Dimensions of the Bulgarian Revival\u201c. Koprivshtitsa, February 23-24, 2023. \u2013 Touches on the public activity of Nayden Gerov in the 1850s \u2013 1870s of the 19th century.<\/li>\n<li>National Scientific Conference \u201eTraditions and Modernity: Bulgarian Society in the \u201eLong 19th Century\u201c, Institute for Historical Studies \u2013 BAS, October 5-6, 2023 \u2013 Russian Diplomats in the Balkans on the Reform Policy of the Ottoman Empire after the Crimean War and Hatihumayun (1853-1856).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Antoaneta Kirilova\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/academic-staff\/antoaneta-kirilova\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Antoaneta Kirilova\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":11511,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15305,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14117\/revisions\/15305"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}