Object: | "Chancellery of the Russian Governor in Svishtov 1878." |
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Description: | Photograph of nine men, sitting and standing in two rows, with a carpet in front of them. In the first row five men are seated - two of them in military uniforms, holding swords; the others are wearing plain city clothes. The man in the center is holding a carnation, additionally colored in red and green. In the second row four men in urban clothes are standing. On the left and in the background there are potted plants. Recto: hand-written inscription in Russian. Verso: hand-written inscriptions in Russian with the names and positions of all photographed persons. |
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Comment: | The Transitional Russian rule was established during the Russo-Ottoman War in April 1877, and suspended by the Treaty of the Congress of Berlin (13 June – 13 July 1878) and the establishment of Eastern Rumelia and the Principality of Bulgaria. The man in the center is Marko Dimitriev Balabanov (1837 - 1921) - Vice Governor of Svishtov and Ruse, lawyer and journalist; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ecclesiastical Matters (1878; 1883 - 1884); diplomat in the Ottoman Empire, in Romania and in Greece; lecturer at the University of Sofia (1889 - 1898) and member of the Bulgarian Literary Society (since 1911 called Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). Among the photographed is Emanuil Ivanov (1857 - 1925), a scholar, mathematician and physicist, one of the founders of the University of Sofia and elected rector of the University (1890 - 1892 and 1893 - 1894). As of 1898 he was a correspondent member of the Bulgarian Literary Society (renamed "Bulgarian Academy of Sciences" in 1911) and became a full member in 1900. |
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Date: | 1878 |
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Location: | Svistov |
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Country: | Bulgaria |
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