Yana Kuncheva-Nacheva – Vasil Levski’s Sister

Abstract

In addition to the researches of life and deeds of the Apostle of Freedom, we learn a lot of things concerning not only his times, but also his near and dear, among whom is also the object of the present article. Although Yana Kuncheva-Nacheva did not do great deeds, she takes a well-deserved place among many other women of that heroic epoch. She, as well as her family, helped Levski and the future revolution in general, as far as they could. Furthermore, her valuable memoirs about her brother and his times, and her life after the Liberation in the new social and political situation – a double process in itself – is a source of information of Yana herself and her relatives, as well as of the period in question.