St. Photius was born in Constantinople about the year 820 in a rich and noble family. Photius received the best for the time education and was the most learned representative of Byzantine Empire.

He was a teacher in the prominent Magnaura school in Constantinople, where the Slavonic equal to Apostle Constantine – Cyril the Philosopher and later the Bulgarian king Simeon the Great.

Photius occupied prestigious positions in the state, but most of al...

He is the most enthusiastically praised and the most violently denounced politician in Bulgaria's modern history, and what could be a better proof that his extraordinary personality. Born in Turnovo in 1854, he made his way into political life after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. He was a student at the Odessa Seminary, an envoy of the Central Revolutionary Committee in Bucharest, leader of the suppressed uprising in Stara Zagora in 1875, h...

Czar Peter I of Bulgaria (927-969), the son of Czar Simeon the Great of Bulgaria, was married to Maria Irena, the granddaughter of Byzantine Emperor Romanus I Lecapenus. He ruled for over 40 years and was succeeded by their son Boris II.

Peter I's reign is usually considered a period of decline, but this is largely due to the less frequent notices about Bulgaria in Byzantine chronicles - a natural consequence of the peaceful relations which reign...