Object: | Studio portrait of Bulgarian officers from the Sofia Military Court |
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Description: | Full length shot of a group of two seated and two standing men in military uniforms around a small table with two books on it. Painted canvas backdrop, which creates the illusion of the scene being set in nature. |
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Comment: | Officers from the Military Court in Sofia 1885: Georgi Agura (1853 - 1915) - a Bulgarian officer and jurist, main military prosecutor during the Balkan Wars 1912 - 1913 and Chairman of the Court Martial. Konstantin (Kosta) Atanasov Paniza (1857 - 1890) was a Bulgarian volunteer (opaltchenets) in the Serbo-Ottoman War of 1876 and in the Russo-Ottoman war 1877 - 1878, and officer. Paniza was sentenced to death and executed in 1890 because of a charge of conspiracy against Prince Ferdinand I and Prime Minister St. Stambolov. |
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Date: | Not before 1885, Not after 1890 |
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Location: | Sofia |
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Country: | Bulgaria |
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