Portrait of Ekaterina Hadzhi Decheva 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.55 Държавен Архив - Пловдив State Archives - Plovdiv ФК № 15 380 Clothing Adornment Gender Status Social Stratification Familiy Political Behavior Gender Roles and Issues Bulgaria Plovdiv Plovdiv 24.75,42.15 Photograph Photographer 1892-1900 Dimitar Anastasov Karastoyanov Karastoyanov, Dimitar Anastasov Vignetted head and shoulder shot of a woman wearing a dark urban dress and earrings. Ekaterina Hadzhi Decheva, wife of Captain Rayco Nikolov. At the time she was a widow. Captain Rayco Nikolov (1840 - 1885) was a volunteer in the Serbo-Ottoman War of 1878, and an officer in the Bulgarian voluntary army units during the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878. He took an active part in preparing the 1885 unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the, at the time, Ottoman province of Eastern Rumelia. Not specified Cabinet 163 107 142 98 Bulgaria Plovdiv