Opalchentsi-pobornitsi (volunteer combatant) in front of the monument of Bulgaria's National Hero Vasil Levski
Description
» next entryoverview| Object: | Opalchentsi-pobornitsi (volunteer combatant) in front of the monument of Bulgaria's National Hero Vasil Levski |
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| Description: | Outdoor photograph of a group of men, mostly in urban clothes with insignia of honour; two of them in an Orthodox priest garb. They are sitting and standing in front of a monument with a bas-relief. On the left side there is a boy sitting. |
| 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". Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev (1837 - 1873), was a revolutionary; he is a national hero of Bulgaria, honored as "the Apostle of Freedom". The Monument to Vasil Levski in Sofia was inaugurated on October 22, 1895. |
| Date: | Not before 1895 |
| Location: | Sofia |
| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Type: | Photograph |
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| Creator: | Karastoyanov, Ivan Anastasov, (Court photographer) |
| Dimensions: | Artefact: 361mm x 289mm Image: 254mm x 207mm |
| Format: | Not specified |
| Technique: | Not specified |
| Keywords: | 150 Behavior Processes and Personality > 156 Social Personality 790 Ecclesiatical Organization > 793 Priesthood 720 War > 729 War Veterans 890 Gender Roles and Issues |
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| Bibliography: | Todorova, Maria (2009): Bones of Contention. The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria’s National Hero. Budapest: Central European University Press. |
| Copyright: | Национален Военноисторически Музей |
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| Archive: | National Museum of Military History Sofia, Inv. No.: 61 |
| License: | This picture is licensed under Creative Commons [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0] |
| Editor: | Anelia Kassabova |
| Permalink: | https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:vase.196 |
