Opalchentsi-pobornitsi (volunteer combatant) in front of the monument of Bulgaria's National Hero Vasil LevskiVisualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950Anelia KassabovaeditorCentre for Southeast European History, University GrazCentre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Grazo:vase.196Национален Военноисторически МузейNational Museum of Military History Sofia61Social PersonalityBehavior Processes and PersonalityPriesthoodEcclesiatical OrganizationWar VeteransWarGender Roles and IssuesBulgariaSofiaSofia23.32415,42.69751PhotographCourt photographer1895 afterIvan AnastasovKarastoyanovKarastoyanov, Ivan AnastasovOutdoor photograph of a group of men, mostly in urban clothes with insignia of honour; two of them in an Orthodox priest garb. They are sitting and standing in front of a monument with a bas-relief. On the left side there is a boy sitting.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". Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev (1837 - 1873), was a revolutionary; he is a national hero of Bulgaria, honored as "the Apostle of Freedom". The Monument to Vasil Levski in Sofia was inaugurated on October 22, 1895.Not specifiedNot specified361289254207BulgariaSofiaTodorova, Maria (2009): Bones of Contention. The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria’s National Hero. Budapest: Central European University Press.