Monument to Petya Dubarova

Petya Dubarova is considered one of the greatest talents in Bulgarian literature. Even when she was in first grade, the Burgas poetess was already writing poems and essays. Her teachers did not believe that these works could be written by a first grader and accused her of being written by her mother, who was a teacher. She began sending some of Petya's poems to the children's newspaper "Septemvriyche". Her first works appeared there, although the editors often doubted whether they were really written by a child. For this reason, they refused to publish many of them. When she was 12 years old, Petya received a letter from the editorial office of "Septemvriyche" that they could no longer publish her because her poems were like those for adults. They advised her to send them to the magazine "Rodna Rech" and the newspaper "Srednosholsko Zname". The magazine "Rodna Rech" was amazed by her talent, embodied in such a young girl. They even had to “age” her by a year, because only high school students could publish there. Petya Dubarova is the most prominent example of the creative talents that are born in Burgas. Petya’s discoverer is considered to be the Burgas poet Hristo Fotev. When she was 10-11 years old, he led a circle in which she participated. With his sense of a great poet, he felt the special way in which the girl looks at the world around her, at the images that she creates without any effort. The beauty of her poems, according to many, remains unsurpassed. Unfortunately, Petya chose to stay forever at 18 and ended her life on her own. Despite her short life, the poetess left behind about 200 poems, 50-60 works in prose, dozens of artistic translations of songs. Some of the poems she created are considered some of the best works dedicated to Burgas and the sea. About her, Hristo Fotev says: “It is almost unbearable for me to talk about Petya Dubarova in the past tense… Sometimes I have to stand on tiptoe to look her in the eye”. The monument to the Burgas poetess is made of bronze by the sculptor Radostin Damaskov. It is located next to the White Fountain in the Sea Garden of Burgas, symbolically placed in close proximity to the Hristo Fotev monument. The sculpture was erected in 2010 in honor of the poetess, who remained forever 18 years old. The three-meter bronze monument depicts Petya Dubarova in full growth facing the sea.