Tsarevna Miladinova

Tsarevna Miladinova-Aleksieva (Bulgarian: Царевна Миладинова; 1856–1934) was a Bulgarian educator who became a driving force behind girls' education in what was then the Ottoman Empire, known for her role in founding the Bulgarian Girls' High School of Thessaloniki.

Early life and education Tsarevna Miladinova was born in 1856 in Struga, a town in what is now North Macedonia.

Her father was Dimitar Miladinov, an influential folklorist and activist in the Bulgarian national movement, and she would share his Bulgarian nationalist views throughout her life.

When she was a child, the Russian consul noticed her reading during church services, and he offered to bring her with him to Russia to pursue her education. After taking him up on his offer, she graduated from a girls' high school in Kyiv, becoming one of various female members of the intelligentsia educated in Russia at that time.

Career alt=A photograph of Tsarevna Miladinova, the founder of the first Bulgarian girls' school in Thessaloniki, with teachers and students at the school. Tsarevna Miladinova, the founder of the first Bulgarian girls' school in Thessaloniki, with teachers and students in the 1882–1883 school year. She is in the middle of the middle row. After finishing school, Miladinova returned to Bulgaria and worked as a teacher while helping to found girls' schools across the region, including in Shumen, Etropole, Svishtov, and Prilep. She lived in Thessaloniki from 1882 to 1913,

Miladinova was one of Bulgaria's best-known teachers of the period, and in her later years her writings on her life and ideas appeared in various regional magazines.

Her writings were first compiled and published posthumously as Epoha, zemya i hora in 1939.