Previously Unknown Portrait of Vasil Levski from the Ottoman Archive in Instanbul Cover Image
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Неизвестен досега портрет на Апостола в османския архив в Истанбул
Previously Unknown Portrait of Vasil Levski from the Ottoman Archive in Instanbul

Author(s): Dora Chausheva, Viktor Kombov
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Education, Cultural history, Ethnohistory, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Modern Age, School education, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Higher Education , State/Government and Education, 19th Century, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Vasil Levski; photo; documents; Istanbul; revolutionary organization

Summary/Abstract: This article represents a photo of Vasil Levski, which was found in the Turkish Presidency State Archives of the Republic of Turkey – Department of Ottoman Archives in Istanbul in October, 2018. Its presence in exactly this archive, along with other documents of the Bulgarian revolutionary organization and the text on the back of the photo in Ottoman Turkish, leads to the conclusion that this is the photographic portrait of the Apostle, which was used for his chasing. With it, the total number of Vasil Levski‘s photos amounts to eight.

  • Issue Year: 27/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 8-13
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bulgarian