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Chapters from the History of Voyvodovo

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2024

Abstract

The collective monograph Chapters from the Voyvodovo History is dedicated to various aspects of history of the only Czech village in Bulgaria - Voyvodovo and of the life of its inhabitants. The chapters of the book focus on the migration of part of the population of Voyvodovo to Argentina in the years 1926-1928 and settlement of its members in the province of Chaco, in the city of Presidencia Roque Sáenz-Peña (Bořivoj Kňourek); an annotated list of Vojvodovo inhabitants who died in the Balkan Wars (1912 - 1913) and the First and Second World Wars, with a detailed description of the place and circumstances of their death; (Bořivoj Kňourek); an archival and genealogical analysis of the history of Voyvodovo Čížek family (Roman Močička) and the life and activities of a Voyvodovo preacher, Lusatian Serb Gottlob Kowal (born. 1889 in Brězowka / Halbendorf) (Marek Jakoubek and Radek Čermák).

The appendix of the publication consists of an annotated transcript of the memoirs of Kateřina Dobiášová (née Filipová, born 1927), transcripts of interviews with the natives of Voyvodovo Barbora Čížková (née Karbulová, born 1921) and Alois Filip (born 1917), a biographical sketch dedicated to description of life and personality of Olga Klepáčková (née Dobiášová, born 1922) by Petr Klepáček and a period text dedicated to the Czechoslovak supplementary school in Voyvodovo written by the first Czech teacher in the village, Jan Findeis. The last section of the publication comprises of an annotated translation of the selection from Minutes of the Sessions of Bulgaria Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Bulgaria 1903, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1911.

The book is accompanied by a number of period and contemporary photographs, plans and other visual materials.