Bulgarian opalchentsi on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877–1878Visualizing 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.673Национална Библиотека "Св. св. Кирил и Методий"St. Cyril and St. Methodius National LibraryC VII 119ClothingAdornmentArchitectureStructuresInterpersonal RelationsInternational RelationsStateMiscellaneous Government ActivitiesGovernment ActivitiesPolitical BehaviorWarGender Roles and IssuesBulgariaSofiaSofia23.32415,42.69751PhotographCourt photographer1897Ivan AnastasovKarastoyanovKarastoyanov, Ivan AnastasovOutdoor shot of a large group of men, sitting and standing in front of a monument. Some of them are in urban clothes, others are in military uniforms with fur caps. Most of the men are wearing insignia of honour. Two of the men in suits are standing on both sides of the memorial plaque with the inscripted name "Alexander II". On the left and on the right of the group on the stair the numbers "1877" and "1897" are engraved.Opalchentsi were Bulgarian voluntary army units, who took part in the Serbo-Ottoman War of 1876 and the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877–1878. The people in these units were called opalchenets-pobornik meaning "volunteer combatant". The photograph was taken in front of the monument dedicated to Alexander II, known as Alexander the Liberator - the Emperor of the Russian Empire from March 3, 1855 until his assassination in 1881.Not specifiedNot specified353281213164BulgariaSofia