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Voydan Popgeorgiev – Chernodrinski (Bulgarian/Macedonian: Войдан/Војдан Попгеоргиев - Чернодрински), (originally spelled in pre-1945: Bulgarian orthography Войданъ попъ Георгиевъ Чернодрински), January 15, 1875 in Selci, Ottoman Empire, (present day North Macedonia) – January 8, 1951, Sofia, Bulgaria) (born Voydan Popgeorgiev Kuzmanov[1]) was a Bulgarian[2][3][4][5][6] playwright and dramatist from the region of Macedonia. His pseudonym is derived from Black Drin (Cherni Drin, Bulgarian/Macedonian: Черни/Црн Дрин), a river flowing near his home village. Today he is considered an ethnic Macedonian writer in North Macedonia and as a figure who laid the foundations of the Macedonian theatre and the dramatic arts.[7][8]

Vojdan Popgeorgiev
Born	Voydan Popgeorgiev (1875-01-15)January 15, 1875 Selci, Ottoman Empire (today in Struga Municipality, North Macedonia)
Died	January 8, 1951(1951-01-08) (aged 75) Sofia, Bulgaria
Pen name	"Chernodrinski"
Occupation	playwright and dramatist
Nationality	Ottoman/Bulgarian
Citizenship	Ottoman/Bulgarian
Genre	drama
Notable works	"Macedonian Blood Wedding"

Biography

Popgeorgiev was born in 1875 in the village of Selci, in the present-day Struga Municipality of North Macedonia.[9] He studied initially in Ohrid, then in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki, but moved with his family in 1890 in Bulgaria, where Voydan graduated from the First Male High School in Sofia. Here he became a member of the Young Macedonian Literary Association. Later Chernodrinski studied law in Austria and Switzerland, but failed to graduate and moved back to Ottoman Macedonia, where he worked as Bulgarian teacher. Afterward he returned to Bulgaria and became a head of the traveling troupe "Grief and comfort" (Bulgarian: Скръб и утеха) (Skrb I Uteha), founded in 1901 and renamed in 1902 as "Macedonian Capital Theater" (Bulgarian: Столичен македонски театър). In Sofia he wrote the most famous of his works, the play Macedonian Bloody Wedding (Makedonska Kărvava Svadba). Voydan reworked it later to give the plot and the libretto for the famous opera "Tsveta" by maestro Georgi Atanasov.[10] After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 Popgeorgiev moved with his traveling troupe back in Ottoman Macedonia. He was invited there by the Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs with the support of Peyo Yavorov and assisted by the Bulgarian National Theater.[11] During the Balkan wars he was mobilized into the Bulgarian Army. During the First World War Chernodrinski served as Bulgarian officer and created the "Soldier Songs" cycle. After the wars he continued with his theatrical activities in Bulgaria. Towards the end of 1922 he formed a new drama theater under the name "Ilinden". In the mid-30s, Aleksandar Shoumenoff, owner of the First Bulgarian Book Store in Granite City, USA, published part of the works of Chernodrinski. The text wasn't translated into English but his works and plays became popular among Macedono-Bulgarian emigration. At this time Chernodrinski sympathized with IMRO leader Ivan Mihaylov.[12] During the Second World War and the subsequent annexation of Macedonia from Bulgaria (1941-1944), Voydan's troupe organized performances there.

Popgeorgiev died in Sofia in 1951.

Legacy

A commemorative plaque was set on his home.[13]

After the death of Popgeorgiev in then SR Macedonia he was proclaimed an ethnic Macedonian writer, who had laid the foundations of the Macedonian theater. The drama "Macedonian Bloody Wedding" was transliterated in 1953 into the newly codified Macedonian language.[14] Everywhere in the text, where the word "Bulgarian" was used, it was replaced with "Christian" or "Macedonian".[15] All other texts besides conversations between the characters, which were written originally in Bulgarian, were translated into Macedonian.[15]

Works

Besides Voydan's most popular work "Macedonian Bloody Wedding" published in 1900 in Macedonian dialect,[16] he published several other literary works all in standard Bulgarian as well, including:[17]

• The woodcutters (Дърварите) (1895)
• In the barroom (В механата) (1895)
• Macedonian emigration (Македонска емиграция) (1897)
• Of the head we suffer (От главата си патиме) (1902)
• The slave and the agha (Робът и агата) (1902)
• Evil for evil (Зло за зло) (1903)
• Skilled workers (Майстори) (1903)
• The spirit of the freedom (Духът на свободата) (1909)
• On the river (На реката) (1921)
• On New Year (На Нова година) (1921)
• Tzar Pir (Царъ Пиръ) (1921)
• The storms near Vardar (Бурите на Вардар) (1925)
• Tsveta the duchess (Цвета войводката) (1929)
• Slav Dragota (Слав Драгота) (1930)

References

External links

• Nikolay Yordanov, PHD - The case of Voydan Chernodrinski - "Macedonian Bloody Wedding" and the tales of their "History" (in Bulgarian)
• Articles about the author on struga.org (in Macedonian)

На других языках

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- [en] Voydan Popgeorgiev – Chernodrinski

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[ru] Чернодринский, Войдан

Войдан Попгеоргиев — Чернодринский (болг. Войдан Попгеоргиев Чернодрински; макед. Војдан Поп Георгиев - Чернодрински), 15 января 1875, Селци[mk], Османская империя (нынешняя Северная Македония) — 8 января 1951, София, Болгария), урождённый Войдан Попгеоргиев Георгиев[2]), — болгарский[3][4] драматург и театральный режиссёр из региона Македония. Его псевдоним происходит от Чёрного Дрина, реки, протекающей неподалёку от его родной деревни. Ныне Чернодринский считается этническим македонским писателем в Северной Македонии и фигурой, заложившей основы македонского театра и драматического искусства[5][6].

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