Ethnic Interactions in the Writings of Bulgarian Authors from Bessarabia and Tavria

The article examines the ethnic interactions of immigrant Bulgarians, which are present in the literary reflection of Bulgarian authors from the diaspora - mostly Misho Hadzhiiski (Tavria), Nikolay Kurtev and Anna Maleshkova (Bessarabia). Сontent analysis of the artistic and the journalistic writing of Bulgarian migrants has enabled us to determine their significant neighbors, the distance between them, as well as some peculiarities of the relations among them. Tavrian and Bessarabian Bulgarians’ implicit or explicit appraisals of “others” are presented too, and their conscious experience of the ethnic contacts in the “empty foreign land” is justified in the article.