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Tadei Divichian (1810-78) was an Armenian publisher in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). He was fluent in five languages, including Bulgarian. In 1844 he purchased a modern printing press from the American missionaries in Constantinople and set up his own business, which specialized in printing in a number of different alphabets, including both the Church Slavic and the civil script used by Bulgarians at the time, a form of Cyrillic adapted to Bulgarian that resulted from the influence of Russian printed books. Divichian published many important works during the Bulgarian National Revival ...