Stoyan Mihaylovski

In 1880, he was editor-in-chief of the Plovdiv-based Popular Voice newspaper; in the same year, he headed a department of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[3] In 1883, Mihaylovski graduated in law in France and was appointed chief secretary of the Ministry of Justice, a post he held until 1884.

His works fall into a variety of genres and spans fables, epigrams, maxims, parodies, poems and dramas.

A leading motive in his entire body of work is the perpetual unattainability of freedom and the triumph of mediocrity and oppression.

[3] Mihaylovski is popular for authoring the anthem of Bulgarian culture and education, the song Cyril and Methodius (better with its first stanza, March Ahead, O Revived People), written in Rousse in 1882 and published in the Thought magazine.