THE BEST SIDE OF BULGARIA

Stefan Stambolov (1854–1895) served 1886-1894 very first as regent and after that key minister for the new ruler, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (prince 1887–1908, tsar 1908–1918). Stambolov thought that Russia's liberation of Bulgaria from Turkish rule had been an try by Czarist Russia to show Bulgaria into its protectorate. His plan was characteri