Tsarevna Miladinova

Tsarevna Miladinova was born in 1856 in Struga, a town in what is now North Macedonia.

[1][3] When she was a child, the Russian consul noticed her reading during church services, and he offered to bring her with him to Russia to pursue her education.

[4] After taking him up on his offer, she graduated from a girls' high school in Kyiv, becoming one of various female members of the intelligentsia educated in Russia at that time.

[4] Then, after working in Svishtov for a period, she gave up her position there to move to Thessaloniki, in what is now Greece, where efforts at educating young Bulgarians were beginning.

[7][8] Miladinova was one of Bulgaria's best-known teachers of the period,[9] and in her later years her writings on her life and ideas appeared in various regional magazines.

A photograph of Tsarevna Miladinova, the founder of the first Buglarian girls' school in Thessaloniki, with teachers and students at the school.
Tsarevna Miladinova, the founder of the first Bulgarian girls' school in Thessaloniki , with teachers and students in the 1882–1883 school year. She is in the middle of the middle row.