Sopot · 1894 · citedUnder the Yoke
Ivan Vazov
Bulgaria's national novel, set in the year of the April Uprising of 1876 against Ottoman rule, follows the escaped revolutionary Boycho Ognyanov as he returns to a small town in the Rose Valley below the Balkan Mountains and helps rouse it to a doomed rebellion. Vazov drew his town of Byala Cherkva from his own Sopot: the streets and houses of the town, the school and the monastery, the neighbouring town of Klisura burned in the rising, and the Sredna Gora mountains where the revolt is crushed.
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