He received his early education in his hometown and later in Plovdiv but eventually had to drop out of school because of his father's straitened financial circumstances and his own poor health.
The year 1894 was important for the young poet: his first poem, "Chirpan," appeared in a Plovdiv publication, and he found employment in Chirpan as an apprentice telegrapher. The following year he was promoted to telegrapher. Having some time on his hands, he began reading both Russian and Bulgarian literature. In the fall of 1895 he made his first visit to Sofia. Upon his return home he evinced a deep interest in Socialist thought: he did a great deal of reading on the topic and even organized a Socialist group. This dovetailed with his interest in the cause of Macedonian independence in its more radical formulations, a cause with which he later was closely associated.
While continuing to work as a telegrapher and moving about the country--first to Sliven, then to Straldzha, finally to Ankhialo--the young poet, who thought for a time of becoming an actor, read Heinrich Heine and the Russian author Semyon Nadson and wrote poems reflecting a thirst for social justice shaped by the populist movement in Russia.
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