
"Documents from the Revival" Collection
The National Museum of History owns a "Documents from the Revival" Collection ", which includes more than 290 museum items, thematically related to the era of the Bulgarian Revival.
The principle of the formation of the collection is the search, preservation and scientific processing of important documents of an official and personal nature, created in the Revival period of the 18th - 19th centuries, which are used in the organization of temporary exhibitions and permanent museum expositions, serve as source material for scientific publications and editions:
The documents bear witness to the life and activities of the leading Revival figures, and reflect key political and social events in the history of Bulgarians in the 18th and 19th centuries. They are of different content and time of creation within the Revival period. The focus is on the stages of the struggle of the Bulgarian people for independence - the cultural and educational movement, the struggle for an independent church and the national liberation movement.
Read the whole textThe collection includes:
– Official Ottoman documents (sultan firmans, deeds, deeds, court files, passports, files, Ottoman bonds)
– Personal documents of prominent figures of the Bulgarian Renaissance and of unknown persons (letters, telegrams, business cards, greeting cards, baptismal and marriage certificates, wills, diaries, biographies, personal notebooks and notebooks)
– Official Bulgarian documents related to the economic development of the Renaissance society in the 19th century (statutes of guild associations, commercial notebooks, notebooks with notes, receipts, receipts, inventories, appeals and petitions)
– Official Bulgarian documents related to the movement for a new Bulgarian school and secular education (textbook literature, study publications, school regulations, reports and reports, student notebooks and certificates)
– Official Bulgarian documents that reflect the political struggle for an independent Bulgarian church and the national revolutionary struggles to win freedom (printed editions of the firman for the establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchy, revolutionary oaths and proclamations, protocols and publications of the Central Committee; list of victims from 1876)
- Foreign documents - personal, issued to Bulgarians and official, which reflect the events surrounding the Russo-Turkish War of Liberation 1877-1878 and the participation of the Bulgarian Militia (identity documents for travel, manifestos, militiamen's certificates and lists, schemes and documents for War of Liberation)
One of the most interesting and significant documents kept in the collection are specially made museum copies of testimonies of the activities of the leading strategists of the national revolution - Georgi Rakovski, Vasil Levski, Hristo Botev:
- Plan for the Liberation of Bulgaria by G.S. Rakovski
- Workers' Order for the Liberation of the Bulgarian People, prepared by V. Levski
- Levski's written oath
- Levski's letters to Panayot Hitov and Philip Totyu
– The personal notebook of Vasil Levski
– a page from Hristo Botev's personal notebook
– A letter from Hristo Botev from the BRCC in Bucharest