Amphitheah, Aleksandar Valentinovich (Kaluga, Russia, 1862 – Levant, Italy, 1938) – Russian writer-novelist (with collected works in 37 volumes), political publicist-pathopite, four-way visitor of Macedonia (with four books for her and the Balkans) , an editor-publisher of c. “Russia” and the SP. “Modernics”, Siberian Water and Evalification of the political emigrant. Although he completed the Faculty of Law in Moscow, he never dealt with the law. Opposist in Russia and author read from intelligence. For a satire for the royal family in the novel “Gentlemen Oblige” was sent to several years of fortune in the Siberian town of Minusinsk (1902). Dissatisfied with the situation after the October Revolution, emigrated to Italy (1920). He is one of the few connoisseurs in the Balkans and Macedonia from the end of the ⅹⅰⅹ and the beginning of XX. (1894-1909). In his Balkan articles and interviews, the main subject is the Macedonian issue from the state-political and cultural and national aspect. In the ancient theater in Ohrid, Macedonians sees a special Slavic entity and directly or more often indirectly spores with Bulgarian, Serbian and Greek opponents. For Macedonians, they “not even Serbs, neither Bulgarians, but an original Slavic people, with a simple basic language that is largely capable of submitting the form of a form that another, more influential and more developed Slavic culture. Macedonians-Bulgarians have there, where the Bulgarian school and church strengthened, and Serbs there, where literacy is in the hands of Serbs. ” BIB.: Page Divorce. Balkans striking, STD., 1903; In mine Streetyah, the SPB., 1903 (and 1907); “Slavyhan above”, M., 1912; Õho, M., 1913. Lit: Cvetan Stanoevski, how did Macedonia see Macedonia (Russian publications for Macedonia 1828-1913), Skopje, 1978, 151-159; Blaze Ristovski, Dimitrija Cupovski (1878-1940) and Macedonian scientific-literary comrades in Petrograd, ⅱ, Skopje, 1978, 85. BL. R.
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Кириличен напис АМФИТЕАТРОВ, Александар Валентинович