Opalchentsi-pobornitsi (volunteer combatant) in front of the monument of Bulgaria's National Hero Vasil Levski 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.196 Национален Военноисторически Музей National Museum of Military History Sofia 61 Social Personality Behavior Processes and Personality Priesthood Ecclesiatical Organization War Veterans War Gender Roles and Issues Bulgaria Sofia Sofia 23.32415,42.69751 Photograph Court photographer 1895 after Ivan Anastasov Karastoyanov Karastoyanov, Ivan Anastasov Outdoor 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 specified Not specified 361 289 254 207 Bulgaria Sofia Todorova, Maria (2009): Bones of Contention. The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria’s National Hero. Budapest: Central European University Press.