On October 14, 1896, the State Drawing School (popularly known as the Drawing School) was opened in Sofia by Decree of Prince Ferdinand and thanks to the active support of prominent artists and public figures such as Konstantin Velichkov, Ivan Shishmanov, Ivan Mrkvichka, Anton Mitov, etc. As early as 1864, in the newspaper "Savetnik" Nikolay ...

Special thanks to Svetlina Nancheva for her help in preparing this article. If anyone is wondering why the Bulgarian education system is failing compared to others, let them stop and read this – during the entire period of the so-called "transition", all the projects that were leading innovations in their time, not only in ...