Parade march of "opalchenetsi-pobornizi" ("volunteer combatant")
| Description: | Outdoor photograph of men in military uniforms with fur caps and flint guns with bayonets, goose-stepped in rows. One of them is holding a flag. |
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| Comment: | Opalchentsi were Bulgarian voluntary army units who took part in the Serbo-Ottoman War in 1876 and in the Russo-Ottoman War in 1877 – 1878. The men in these units were called opalchenets-pobornik, meaning "volunteer combatant". Comment from the Archive: "The parade march is in front of General Nikolai Stoletov". Nikolai Grigorevich Stoletov (1834 - 1912) was General in the Imperial Russian Army. After the end of the Russo-Ottoman War 1877 - 1878, Stoletov became Lieutenant General. |
| Date: | Not before 1888 |
| Location: | unknown |
| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Type: | Photograph |
| Creator: | Karastoyanov, Ivan Anastasov, (Court photographer) |
| Dimensions: | Artefact: 168mm x 247mm Image: 150mm x 199mm |
| Format: | Not specified |
| Technique: | Not specified |
| Keywords: | 150 Behavior Processes and Personality > 156 Social Personality 700 Armed Forces 710 Military Technology 640 State > 648 International Relations 720 War > 729 War Veterans |
| Copyright: | Национален Военноисторически Музей |
| Archive: | National Museum of Military History Sofia, Inv. No.: 34 |
| License: | This picture is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
| Editor: | Anelia Kassabova |
| Permalink: | https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:vase.170 |