Slaveykov School

Slaveykov School is built in 1863.Concerned about the future of their children, in the desire to provide them with the best conditions for modern knowledge, tradesmen proceed to the erection of a new A school with the name of the holy Sedmochislenitsi – the Bulgarian enlighteners. The initiative is the local teachers Spyridon Gramadov and Yanko Devetakov. The noble work born of patriotic and progressive merchants, is also thanks to their generosity and generosity.

Builders are the famous Tryavna masters Dimitar Sergyuv and Usta Gencho Kanev. The famous Renaissance enlightener Petko R. Slaveikov, who briefly taught in the city, takes part in the interior architectural design. This contribution received the recognition of merchants for whom the school became popular as the “Slaveikovoto”.

On July 27, 1863, with great celebration, the building was consecrated on the day of the Holy Seventh-day Adventist. Personally, Slaveikov pronounces a fervent and enlightening speech, and in his newspaper “Gaida” (1863) emphasizes that such a “building as it is now in Bulgaria at the moment does not exist”. The completed school building is one of the most remarkable monuments of public construction since the Bulgarian Revival.

In 1963, the old school building underwent a new public mission. It has been turned into a museum. The graphic image of the Slaveykov School today is the emblem of the Regional History Museum in Targovishte. Since 1971 the building has been a national monument of culture.