The Slaveykov school, Tryavna
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Some of the most important Bulgarian personalitiessuch as Angel Kanchev, Dr. Hristo Daskalov and Petko Slaveykov (popular Bulgarian poet and one of the 7 children of Pencho Slaveykov) have graduated from the Slaveykov School.
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In the Old School, students from different grades studied in the same classroom. The smallest pupils were situated in front of the room writing on sand, the next row was taken by those writing on boards, while the seats in the back were reserved for the most advanced students writing with paper, ink and feathers.
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Petko Rachov Slaveykov is a Bulgarian poet, publicist, folklorist and a politician. As one of the leaders of the Liberal party, he was the Chairman of the National Parliament, and a Prime Minister more than once.
Built between 1836 and 1839, the Slaveykov School is one of the first secular schools in Bulgaria.
Initially, it was called “The Old School” but later it was named after the famous Bulgarian Petko Slaveykovin honor of his innovative approach towards education, implemented during his long-lasting career in the establishment.
It was founded as a school with a monitorial educational system in the autumn of year 1839. In 1849, the people of Tryavna invited Petko Slaveykov to be a teacher in Tryavna, and he founded a class school in this building. He introduced the studying of music, fine arts, and physical education classes. The changes made by Slaveykov are so many and so significant that they influenced the educational system of the entire country. At present, this building houses a restoration of a room such as those of the schools with monitorial educational system. In this room, anyone can go back to the beginning of the 19th century and try to write on sand, to read from the tables of the school, to familiarize themselves with the austere requirements for the students in the school of the Revival period, to decorate themselves with a token of achievement and take one as a souvenir.
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The building has now been renovated and houses the City Museum, The Museum of wood carving and icon painting, exhibitions of philately and old clocks, “Educational work before the Liberation of Bulgaria” (documents and objects), “Time-measurement machines from antiquity to the beginning of the XX century” (a collection of George Vezirov), and a gallery with donations by Dimitar and Nikcola Kazakovi.
You can find out more about the building at: www.tryavna-museum.eu/музей_славейковото-школо_трявна
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