These are Russian Nikolay Konstantinovich narodovolets Sudzilovski-Roussel, whose later fame rests on all continents ... Even highly addicted to ideas Bakuninism, while he was a scientist of great magnitude, left lasting traces in medical science.
To tell his stormy life is like a spoon izgrebesh ocean ... so had delivered one of his biographers. Botev's friend is known for its large linguistic abilities, speaking eight European languages, a man of vast encyclopedic knowledge ... Sudzilovski had friends scattered around the globe. And where there was not he? In which you place on the globe has gone his leg - in Romania and England, where corresponds to our poet, in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Italy, Australia, then in Bulgaria, Turkey, America, Japan and China. For some time the president and the exotic Republic of Hawaii.
When April 30, 1930 worldwide spread the sad news of his death, the world's press pays deserved tribute to the famous Russian scientist. For him, writing and Clemenceau in France, John Kennan in America, in Russia, Plekhanov and others. At least it is written of him in Bulgaria, which he so loved ...
N. K. Sudzilovski was born in 1848 in an old Russian aristocratic family of Polish origin. He studied at the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg univrsitet, then at the Kiev Medical School.
Sudzilovski walked alongside Russia and most often stay in Odessa, where, as his biographer suggests, is familiar with Hristo Botev. Emigrant life starts in 1874 and he will never again see his homeland ... A long time live in Romania, where it is closer to many of the activists of the Bulgarian national revolutionary movement, including a Botev, Zahari Stoyanov, Stefan Stambolov etc ... The dust of history has long been covered with oblivion heart touching connections between Botev and Sudzilovski ... For them, spring data are too sparse and contradictory, which allow us to resurrect closer acquaintance, but there are some on which we can fully trust. In a letter to his friend Ivan Drasov of April 12, 1875 Botev wrote: "Novelty. Russian socialists in London and Zurich are calling me to go to them and became commissioner. They want to enter into intercourse with our revolutionaries. We are being offered to menim for propagandists, passports and more. "Further Botev cites a passage from the letter Sudzilovski, which says that the Russian revolutionaries in Western Europe are ready to help their Bulgarian comrades' moral and physical ". Hristo Botev has not responded to the invitation to go to London, but he later found himself Sudzilovski in Bucharest with him. Later, when Georgi examines Russian relations to our revolutionary (1911), wrote a letter and asked him Sudzilovski I know this Russian friend who has invited Botev to go to London. "Russian friend from London, his orgovarya Sudzilovski that Botev invited to be our agent for me. Literature sent without special diligence and interest and not always successfully, as it consisted of volumes of "Vpered" which was very convenient to put under his head when we had no pillows. Christo with his band at night rummaging between Bucharest wealthy Bulgarians and Greeks. Police are looking through fingers, and when going to arrest them, cast them in endorsement of Botev. Sometimes he brings them 15-20 people in my slum. They slipped off my shoes and sat in a makeshift room couches with folding legs, which makes us laugh. "
But for what purpose Sudzilovski left quiet life in London and goes Botev in Bucharest? "It is said he Bakalov, I went to read the Danube as a surgeon. So I offered Botev, but some rebels were related negatively to this and preferred to see me with rifle in hand. " With the pain of heart, he talks about the sad end of the band ... "had not died he had waited to the end of the Russo-Turkish War for Bulgaria's role would be much more useful than Karavelov and others. Ah, can not tell everything! "In this letter to Sudzilovski D. Bakalov and he explains why not participate in band, although it came especially for this. "I believe so little in the success of their expedition, had his head a family that had nowhere to go, nowhere to leave it, and after some hesitation I quit."
History has preserved documents that clearly speak for Sudzilovski contribution in the struggle of the Bulgarian people for national liberation. In a letter to friends abroad, seek the assistance of the Bulgarian national revolution among Russian immigrants, both in Romania and Western Europe ...
In 1881 Sudzilovski in Bulgaria, the country of which he spent so much passion and energy to fight against the Ottoman yoke ґ. Nearly five years his stay in Bulgaria. What is the fate of this indomitable friend Botev here in the newly liberated ... In Plovdiv Bulgaria - the capital of Eastern Rumelia, he continued the fight by participating actively in the great patriotic work - Unification of North and South Bulgaria.
He won his fame is the best surgeon in Eastern Rumelia. In sharp political struggles in the new Bulgaria Sudzilovski is accused of plotting against Al in conjunction with the Russian consuls in Bulgaria. In 1886 he left insulted Bulgaria and headed to America. He received U.S. citizenship, for four years, he holds the office of American consul in various countries in Asia, finally settled in Hawaii, where the state is governed by despotic queen ... Lil Ukalani short time here, Dr. Roussel Sudzilovski and his wife won the trust and sympathy of the indigenous population, not only with free medical care, but also educational activity. The name of "good Russian doctor" as he was called by the natives, became extremely popular.
In 1892, Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown in parliamentary time and the island was annexed to the United States. Here he was elected senator and then president of the Hawaii Senate ... thus become de facto head of the republic.
The last years of his life, he finished in China. And he Botev Bulgarian friends and Stambolov, despite their ability to get rich in office, unless big library had no other condition. As if he uttered the words Stambolov "Not we, shteme wealth shteme we, not money. And we want freedom. Human rights ". He died heroically as Botev, and died at age 83 from influenza and mental strain. •
Prof. Angel Vekov

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