Мила Димитрова Крыстева - Krasteva Mila Dimitrova, Associated Professor, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

In ۱۷۶۲ the Bulgarian monk Paisiy Hilendarski (Paisius of Hilendar) completed his manuscript book Slavic-Bulgarian History. The book, which he began to write in Zograph Monastery, was completed him in the Hilendar Monastery on the holy Mount of Athos. During the Bulgarian Revival Period, between ۱۷۶۵ and ۱۸۸۲, the Slavonic-Bulgarian History was hand-copied over ۷۰ times. From the ۱۹۴۰s onwards Russian scholars became interested in the manuscript copies of Paisiy's book. The interest of foreign scholars persisted until the restoration of the Bulgarian state in ۱۸۷۸. The article reconstructs the so-called Russian Trace in the Bulgarian Historiography of the ۱۸th and ۱۹th centuries. We follow the relations between Vasil Aprilov (Bulgarian emigrant in Odessa) and some Russian professors (Yuri Venelin, Victor Grigorovich, Nikolay Murszakevich, Ossip Berdjanski etc.) who studied the handwritten transcripts of Slavic-Bulgarian History, because they had the ambition to publish them in Russia in the ۱۹۴۰s and ۱۹۵۰s.In ۱۷۶۲ the Bulgarian monk Paisiy Hilendarski (Paisius of Hilendar) completed his manuscript book Slavic-Bulgarian History. The book, which he began to write in Zograph Monastery, was completed him in the Hilendar Monastery on the holy Mount of Athos. During the Bulgarian Revival Period, between ۱۷۶۵ and ۱۸۸۲, the Slavonic-Bulgarian History was hand-copied over ۷۰ times. From the ۱۹۴۰s onwards Russian scholars became interested in the manuscript copies of Paisiy's book. The interest of foreign scholars persisted until the restoration of the Bulgarian state in ۱۸۷۸. The article reconstructs the so-called Russian Trace in the Bulgarian Historiography of the ۱۸th and ۱۹th centuries. We follow the relations between Vasil Aprilov (Bulgarian emigrant in Odessa) and some Russian professors (Yuri Venelin, Victor Grigorovich, Nikolay Murszakevich, Ossip Berdjanski etc.) who studied the handwritten transcripts of Slavic-Bulgarian History, because they had the ambition to publish them in Russia in the ۱۹۴۰s and ۱۹۵۰s.

Paisii Hilendarski, Slavic-Bulgarian History, Manuscript, Copy, Rehash, Russia.