Sounáležitostí a soudržnos­tí k vzá­jem­né­mu pozná(vá)ní

Collective monographs represent in book form the core of research from three successive Czech-Bulgarian projects, underway under a bilateral inter-academic agreement in 2011 – 2019, focusing on selected chapters from the history of mutual literary, cultural and historical contacts. Authors“ collective, which consists of Czech literary historian and Bulgarist M. Černý and two Bulgarian historians Teodorichka Gotovska-Henze and Lyubomila Solenkova (the Czech Bulgarist Danuše Hronková also co-participated in one chapter) are closely devoted to the activities of personalities connected with the period of National Revival (J. V. Frič, V. D. Stoyanov, P. R. Slaveykov, Onufry Popovich Hilendarets, H. G. Danov, B. Jirásková-Hiteva, M. Drinov, A. Patera) as well as outreach workers, writers, scientists and translators later (B. Penev, K. Hristov, V. Sís, Sáva Chilandarec, F. Tichý-Broman, V. Dobruský). Chronologically, however, the account of their mutual activities and life fates is defined by the date of the creation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. Emphasis is placed on previously unknown archival material on the history of Czech-Bulgarian relations, which is analysed and commented on in 15 different large chapters, to a lesser extent also published or reproduced (opera libretto, correspondence, diary entries, period cartoons responding to the Bulgarian liberation struggle of 1876 – 1878 etc.). As part of the monograph, the Czech map „European Turkey, Montenegro Greece and the Jon Islands“ (Prague 1863), prepared by V. D. Stoyanov, is being reissued for the first time in modern times. The Commentary not only places this map in the developmental context of Bulgarian revival cartography, but also appreciated as a cultural act in the history of Czech cognition of Bulgaria.