Bulgaria commemorates Sundday the 139th anniversary of the death of its national hero, freedom-fighter and revolutionary Vasil Levski. Levski was sentenced to death by an Ottoman court and hanged in ...
This year marks 153 years since the Apostle of Freedom was executed near Sofia. The anniversary is not seen as a moment of death but as the beginning of his immortality in Bulgarian historical memory.
A new statue of the 19th century Bulgarian freedom fighter Vasil Levski has just been unveiled in Canada, as the fashion for putting up statues to him shows no sign of abating. Bulgaria’s former ...