Photographs

An interesting and significant collection containing some 4,000 photographs and postcards of persons, events and objects of notable historical significance. The collection contains photographic documents of various genres - portraits of people, group portraits, photographs of events and photographs of objects. Portraits of persons form a major part of the collection, among them there are unique portraits of Bulgarian Renaissance figures, religious leaders, statesmen, politicians, monarchs, military men, revolutionaries and civilians connected with Bulgarian history (Vasil Levski, Yoakim Gruev, Naiden Gerov, Lyuben Karavelov, Zahari Stoyanov, Tsar Ferdinand, Tsar Boris III). There are also a number of portraits of foreign senior military, diplomats, monarchs, scholars and heads of state - such as the Ottoman sultans Murad V, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Majid, the first King of Greece and Prince Otto I of Bavaria, Russian imperial generals and governors, Western senior statesmen, monarchs and military figures.
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