Vasil Drumev

Kliment Turnovski Климент Търновски
2nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria
In office 6 December 1879 – 7 April 1880
Monarch	Alexander
Preceded by	Todor Burmov
Succeeded by	Dragan Tsankov
In office 21 August 1886 – 24 August 1886
Monarch	Alexander
Preceded by	Petko Karavelov
Succeeded by	Petko Karavelov
Minister of Education
In office 6 December 1879 – 7 April 1880
Premier	Himself
Preceded by	Georgi Atanasovich
Succeeded by	Ivan Gyuzelev
Personal details
Born	1841 Shumen, Ottoman Empire
Died	(1901-07-10)10 July 1901 Sofia, Bulgaria
Political party	Conservative Party

Kliment Turnovski, (born Vasil Nikolov Drumev (Bulgarian: Васил Николов Друмев), c. 1841 – 10 July 1901, known by his title as Metropolitan Kliment of Turnovo), was a leading Bulgarian clergyman and politician. He was also a writer and one of the founders of the Bulgarian Literature Society (BLS; now known as the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) in 1869.

He was born in Shumen, where a village now bears his given name in a craftsman family. Originally, he was taught in his native town by Sava Dobroplodni and Sava Filaretov, but afterwards attended the Odessa Seminary. He was influenced by the revolutionary Georgi Sava Rakovski and joined Rakovski's First Bulgarian Legion in Belgrade in 1861, where he distinguished himself in the fight against the Turkish garrison. Drumev kept close ties with Vasil Levski, Stefan Karadzha and some other Bulgarian revolutionaries.

After the Legion disbanded in 1862, Kliment emigrated in Russia, where he continued his education at the Kiev seminary. In 1869 he settled in Brăila. In 1873 he was ordained priest, and in the ensuing year he was ordained a bishop under the name Clement Branitski. He later became deputy of the metropolitan bishop in Tulcha.

After the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, Drumev worked as rector of the Peter-Paul seminary near Lyaskovets. In 1884 he was chosen to be metropolitan bishop of Turnovo.

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