Georgi Sava Rakovski: Difference between revisions

| page =77 }}</ref> In 1841, he was sentenced to death whilst involved in revolutionary plans against the Turks, but thanks to a Greek friend,he managed to escape to [[Marseille]]. A year-and-a-half later, he returned to Kotel, only to be arrested again in 1845. Sentand sent to Istanbul for seven years of solitary confinement,. heHe was released in May 1848.

Between 1854 and 1860, Rakovski spent his time writing, publishing reviews, and avoiding arrest. He also issued his own magazine "Bulgarian ancient times" ("Българска старина") 1865, which managed only one edition. In his article in it Rakovski cited all his sources in original for he could speak more than 9 languages and aswas the first European who translated the old vedic texts in Bulgarian. His wide interests and profound knowledge made him a really versatile rennaissane personality of the Bulgarian National Revival Movement in the mid 19th century.

He penned his best-known work, ''Gorski Patnik'' (translated as ''A Traveller in the Woods'' or ''Forest Wanderer''), while hiding from Turkish authorities near the bulgarian city of Kotel during the Crimean War (1853–56). Considered to be one of the first Bulgarian literary poems, it was not actually published until 1857.<ref>{{cite book