Bulgarian clairvoyants

Phenomenon records encounters with visitors, showing how conversations unfolded. Popular lists of annual predictions need a separate source check for each statement.

• Vanga in the family photographic archive
• Phenomenon, 1976, 108 minutes

  Description and stills from Nevena Tosheva’s documentary. This is a production record.

• Rupite and Zlatolist, Bulgaria from End to End, 23 December 2023

  Published by BNT’s official channel. A travel report featuring places and local recollections.

She was born on 27 July 1945 in Pernik. Her father died early, and she entered an orphanage in Kocherinovo. Biographical accounts place a difficult childhood and a later injury before the emergence of the abilities attributed to her.

• The Unfamiliar Vera Kochovska, BNT, 11 February 2022

  Hristo Nanev talks to Stoycho Kerev. This is a discussion about Kochovska, not an interview with her.

• Stills from Vsyaka Nedelya
• Teodosii Spassov on the album Faith, BNR, 23 April 2019

For the recorded encounters, start with Lozenski’s diaries. For a biographer’s narrative, look at Hristo Nanev’s books. By 2010, BNR was already introducing him as the author of four books about Sevryukova.

• Hristo Nanev on his books about Slava, BNR, 9 April 2010

  An archive article about the radio programme. The reviewed page has no accessible audio player.

• Our Diaries with Slava Sevryukova

  Publisher’s listing of Ivo Lozenski’s book. The full text is not provided here.

• Viktor Giltyay’s photograph and Hristo Nanev’s account

Prepodobna is the name by which she is remembered, not evidence of official canonisation. Her familiar likeness is a painted portrait; a lifetime photograph has not been verified in the reviewed sources.

• Visiting Zlatolist with BNT, 23 December 2023

  The programme also visits Rupite. Stories about Stoyna are told by people preserving her memory.

• Stoyna Prepodobna, a 1998 documentary

  Archive description of Svetla Fingova’s film. This is not a link to the full film.

• St George’s Day at the church, BNT, 6 May 2021

Accounts of Vlaycho include predictions about wars, political events and his visitors’ lives. A particularly well-known story says that he foresaw Georgi Dimitrov’s death. The municipal account links this prediction to his internment in a labour camp.

• Objects and room at the House of Goodness, BTA, 5 July 2024

  Velina Vasileva’s gallery of objects at the Konyovo memorial.

• House of Goodness, Nova Zagora Municipality

An account in Sofiyski Vestnik places Bona’s birth in Novoseltsi, now Elin Pelin. She moved to Grigorevo after marrying in 1903. Her husband died in the Balkan War, leaving her with four children after two had already died.

• Sts Joachim and Anne Monastery in Bistritsa, BNR

  Ethnologist Valentina Dineva-Sharlanova discusses local tradition and the monastery’s restoration.

• Obradovtsi Monastery of St Menas, BNR
• Bona’s portrait at See Bulgaria

References name her as Korteza Stefanova or Konstantina Stefanova. Information about her birth year and family life is scarce. Sliven is the city consistently associated with her.

• The group photograph featuring Korteza
• St George’s Day and the holy spring in Momchilovtsi, 6 May 2015

  Local report recounting Korteza’s visit, with photographs of the celebration.

How did a military officer become a confidant of the tsar? Hristo Nanev follows that story in Prophet of the Crown. The other recording explores the novel New People and family memories. Accounts of his predictions come from biographers and witnesses; the exact words need to be traced to their records.

• Hristo Nanev on Lulchev, BNR, 7 June 2017
• New People and family memories, BNR

Galina Goncharova examines how Krastnikov fashioned his public identity as a clairvoyant between the wars. Zhorzheta Nazarska studies the society itself. These studies help distinguish his views from later legends.

• Galina Goncharova’s study
• Zhorzheta Nazarska on the society, 2023, pp. 99 to 115
• Portrait at See Bulgaria