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Exhibition in Veliko Tarnovo features events and personalities who contributed to the Unification of Bulgaria

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The exhibition "The Unification – Events and Personalities", located at the Museum of the Bulgarian Revival and Constituent Assembly in Veliko Tarnovo, showcases original documents and photographs from the collections of the National Library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" and the Veliko Tarnovo Library "Petko R. Slaveykov". It is dedicated to the 139th anniversary of the Unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.

''We show personalities who took an active part in the preparation and implementation of this act and some documents that reflect and finalize it", says Dr. Ruslan Ivanov from the National Library. Some of the archival documents and photographs are on display for the first time.

Visitors can see the Prince Alexander I Battenberg's telegram to Dr. Georgi Stranski to send a deputation to Tarnovo to deliver the act of proclaiming the Unification. The exhibition features Prince Alexander I Battenberg's Decree No. 1 on taking over the government of Eastern Rumelia and Alexander Battenberg's manifesto on the proclamation of the Unification.

The exhibition also features photographs of Zahari Stoyanov, Alexander Bogoridi, Gavril Krastevich, Prodan Tishkov - Chardafon, Sava Mutkurov, Raicho Nikolov, the members of the Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee and the Unity Committee.



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