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Rufinka’s grave

“Rufinka bolna legnala” is one of the hardest Rhodope songs to sing. The girl in it was real.

Poprelka is a small village near Mogilitsa, at 1,200 metres. People there say Rufinka lived among them more than a hundred and fifty years ago — hard-working, and loved.

Her early death moved the country and the song followed. Its words are carved on the headstone today.

Beside the stone grows a white columbine her mother planted. It flowers every spring.

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