there are a lot of relatives here, my mother is from this village of stepanovka, my father is from bogdan , that is, i have relatives there, here i have relatives. it can be said that all bulgarians know each other, olga and her large family, grandmothers , aunts, cousins, immigrants from bessarabia, their ancestors settled on these lands in the second half of the 19th century. after the results of the russian-turkish war , bessarabi was under the rule of the puppet moldavian principality, and in fact the ottoman empire, then many bulgarians decided to move here to the azov. steppes under the protection of the crown of the russian empire. here the soil was very fertile , thousands of hectares of unclaimed land and there was water. all in all. well, all that is needed for us industrious people is the cultivation of grapes , livestock breeding and, of course, gardening in the summer in the air of this village, like hundreds of other bulgarian settlements hovers saturated. these flowers are a symbol and, one might even say, a brand of the modern state of bulgaria here in novorossia to roses,