Venec (Dec 2016)
Pages from the Past: Part III [In Bulgarian]
Abstract
"Pages from the past" are recollections written in 1970's by Ferdinanda - Venka Stefanova Strigacheva (1897-1976). A large period of time after 1910 is covered. She was born in the village of Targovishte, Belogradchik region. She graduated from the Secondary School for Girls in Vidin. Then she became a teacher. Later she studied agronomy in Wien and Berlin. Ferdinanda Strigacheva was an active and influential communist. However, when the communists became in power in Bulgaria in the autumn of 1944, she left aside from the policy disappointed from the actions of the Bulgarian Communist Party; nevertheless, Strigacheva kept her loyalty to the Party and beliefs into the communism. Strigacheva's son Dr. Atanas Strigachev and his son Dr. Anton Strigachev prepared the text for publishing, mainly with changing the spelling into the modern one.
