Parade march of "opalchenetsi-pobornizi" ("volunteer combatant") Visualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950 Anelia Kassabova editor Centre for Southeast European History, University Graz Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:vase.170 Национален Военноисторически Музей National Museum of Military History Sofia 34 Social Personality Behavior Processes and Personality Armed Forces Military Technology International Relations State War Veterans War Lake Unknown 168.27006,-44.62835 Photograph Court photographer 1888 after Ivan Anastasov Karastoyanov Karastoyanov, Ivan Anastasov Outdoor photograph of men in military uniforms with fur caps and flint guns with bayonets, goose-stepped in rows. One of them is holding a flag. Opalchentsi were Bulgarian voluntary army units who took part in the Serbo-Ottoman War in 1876 and in the Russo-Ottoman War in 1877 – 1878. The men in these units were called opalchenets-pobornik, meaning "volunteer combatant". Comment from the Archive: "The parade march is in front of General Nikolai Stoletov". Nikolai Grigorevich Stoletov (1834 - 1912) was General in the Imperial Russian Army. After the end of the Russo-Ottoman War 1877 - 1878, Stoletov became Lieutenant General. Not specified Not specified 168 247 150 199 Bulgaria Unknown