Studio portrait of 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.404 Национална Библиотека "Св. св. Кирил и Методий" St. Cyril and St. Methodius National Library С 653 Social Personality Behavior Processes and Personality Clothing Uniform and Accouterment Military Technology Revolution Political Behavior Personal Names Individuation and Mobility Serbia Belgrade Belgrade 20.46513,44.80401 Photograph Photographer 1866-1868 Anastas Nikolov Stojanović/Karastoyanov Stojanović/Karastoyanov, Anastas Nikolov Full length shot of a man in folk attire with traditional peasant shoes (tsarvuli) and leggings. He is carrying a pistol in his belt and holding a sword in his left and a long rifle in his right hand. A painted canvas backdrop is creating the illusion of the scene being set in nature. Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev (1837 - 1873), was a Bulgarian revolutionary who ideologized and strategized the Bulgarian revolutionary movement against the Ottoman Empire. He was a founder of the Bulgarian Intern Revolutionary Organization. Levski is a national hero of Bulgaria and considered the Apostle of Freedom. Not specified Carte de visite 108 65 99 64 Serbia Belgrade Boev, Petar (1983): Fotografskoto izkustvo v Balgaria /1856 - 1944/. Sofia: DI "Septemvri", 26 Parvanova, Mariyana (2010): Neizvestno za izvestni balgarski rodove. Vol. 3, Sofia: Iztok-Zapad, 209 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 Kassabova, Anelia (2012): Identities in frame. Photography and the Construction of a „National Body“ in Bulgaria (approx. 1860 to WW I). In: Hristov, Petko (Ed.): Migration and Identity. Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Dimensions of Mobility in the Balkans. Sofia: Paradigma, 76 Ivanova, Evgenia (2008): Foto Stoyanovich. Sofia: Balkani, 78.