Studio portrait of Boris Kolchev 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.924 Личен Архив Светла Богданова Svetla Bogdanova SB_05 Locomotion Travel and Transportation Cabinet State Political Behavior Law Offenses and Sanctions Justice Nuclear Family Familiy Education Bulgaria Sofia Sofia 23.32415,42.69751 Photograph Photographer 1938 Bogdan Dimitrov Karastoyanov Karastoyanov, Bogdan Dimitrov Medium close-up of a man wearing a suit adorned with two badges. Boris Kolchev (1890 - 2.02.1945) graduated from His Majesty's Military School in Sofia as an engineer. He was married to Nevena Andreeva Dimitrova. Kolchev became general director of the Bulgarian State Railways and Ports (~ 1935 - 1944) and Minister of the State Railway, Postal- and Telegraphic Services (1944). Boris Kolchev and a number of former cabinet ministers and royal advisors were sentenced to death by a "People's Tribunal" in January 1945 and executed on 2 February. The badge on the right is that of the Bulgarian State Railways. The Bulgarian State Railways were established in 1885. Not specified Not specified Bulgaria Sofia