Voydan Pop Georgiev – Chernodrinski

Who was Voydan Pop Georgiev – Chernodrinski?

Voydan Pop Georgiev – Chernodrinski was a Bulgarian playwrighter and dramatist from the region of Macedonia. His pseudonym is derived from Black Drin, a river flowing through his home town. The most famous of his works is the play Macedonian Bloody Wedding.

He was head of the traveling troupe "Grief and comfort", founded in 1901 and renamed in 1902 as "Macedonian Capital Theater". Chernodrinski reworked it later to give the plot and the libretto for the famous opera "Tsveta" by maestro Georgi Atanasov. In the 1960s it was reworked and turned into a film in Communist Yugoslavia. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian and Macedoniain writer in the Republic of Macedonia.