The Bulgarian Connection
Pictures & Postcards
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Translation

Here with Danka
we are weaving, simultaneously indeed weaving  in our room.

Rajna

P.S. Uncle, here I am completely/wholy ... (?plashilita ?afraid, ?feared)
a lot of threads? ?when do not ?present me.

11.I.1930 [11 January 1930]
Banja, Chepino

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Translation

Two postcards with the same picture.

1916.

Mrs. Rajna K. 
       Boteva

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1916

George M. Kolchagov
Milana G. Kolchagova
parents of Demeter G. 

Dimityr G. Kolchagov

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Translation
Well, here I look really bad (ugly) but you know, only ugly people look good on portraits. 

How beautiful are [those] young "vlasinki"! 
[meaning: Where did the beautiful (youthful) hair go?, (G.T.)]
Rajna

("Vlasinki" = diminutive from "vlas"=Vlah, in feminine gender) (I don't know what Rajna wants to say with the last phrase. Either the girls on the picture are Vlahs, or it could be a refrain from some popular song describing the beauty of girls)

11.I. 1930
Banja, Chepino

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Translation

14.V.1918 (I think) village of Ludjene

Dear brother,
It is already my 4th letter to you. From you until now we have received only one letter, with which you made us very much happy, that you are
well/OK there with Ivanka, and that you have a little bit sorted out your things/a little bit settled down. I am still not certain whether you receive our letters, that is why I send you a little bit creased cards, so that if they are lost, not too much to be lost. We with our mother are now quite OK/so-so as regards to the health, but we in a quite bad situation with the finances/we are bad off. And the Bakov's (?) are OK both ... (?both of them). The youngest son of uncle ?Mitko (?Moshkovi) - Cvetko, died this year from
"Miningit" (meningitis). The wife of Mitko (?Moshkov) works hard this way she earns her living. Mitko ?at (or ?but, or ?us) write more often to mama 
__Reversed__ right: Cvetko Gigov ?Mitkov (?Monkov) is ill.
With love, your brother Hristo
 __Reversed__ left: (I am not 100% sure in the reading): cadet as I was near Ka(r?)to..(?)
??? (=[it is me] when I was a cadet near ...)

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