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Along the east bank of the Topolnitsa, you'll find, near the Freedom Bridge, the Karavelov House (Mon & Wed-Sun 9.30am-5.30pm), where Lyuben Karavelov was born in 1834. The son of a sausage merchant, his itinerant career was typical of the many patriots who spent years in exile trying to win support for the Bulgarian cause. Educated in Moscow, he was a strong believer in the need to attract Russian and Serbian help, and based himself in Belgrade, where he met Vasil Levski. His enthusiasm for the idea of a Balkan Federation proved too radical for his hosts, who forced him to flee into Habsburg territory, where he was promptly jailed. Karavelov later found refuge in Bucharest, where he organized the BRCK and for ten years advocated armed struggle in the columns of the emigre newspapers Svoboda and Nezavisimost . After Levski's execution, however, he repudiated direct action in favour of change through reform and education, and was ousted from the leadership of the committee by Hristo Botev. The house itself contains the usual items of nineteenth-century domestic life, while in the little courtyard stands the rough wooden bench where Karavelov Senior made his sausages. Also on show is the printing press on which Karavelov's newspapers were produced, brought to Bulgaria after the Liberation. An adjacent summer house contains the personal effects of his younger brother, Petko, a prominent liberal politician after the Liberation, and twice premier
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