The paper presents the work of Bulgarian literary critic and scholar Stefan Minchev (1874-1912). In his work Iz istorija na bylgarskija roman (From the History of Bulgarian Novel) created in 1908-1912, the author includes not only Bulgarian pieces, but also translated and adapted (pobalgareni). The paper recounts Minchev’s project and attempts to answer the question about motivation of the literary scholar. Was it unreflective gesture, or rather treating it as a natural stage in history of the literary genre. Was it to gentrify young literature and language, or to show its weakness. And was it based on already existing model or it was innovate, groundbreaking not only in the context of Bulgarian or Slavonic literary translation studies.