2024-04-12 16:02:43
Exhibition with original photos from the Northwest, Dr. Vanya Stavreva opened in the “Cross Barracks”, archaeologist in the historical museum of Vidin
Stories of publishers, senders and recipients of postcards with views from Vidin and Belogradchik are presented in an exhibition and in a documentary book, the album in the Regional History Museum in Vidin, Dr. Vanya Stavreva.
The cards are from the author’s personal collection and are collected for more than 10 years
The exhibition contains 88 originals, and the book includes over 130 cards from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century.
“My interest in the cards with views from Vidin and Belogradchik was dictated by their direct connection with the collective cultural memory, based on the shared knowledge of the common past, which is encoded in objects, images and symbols, and my approach in presenting them and searching for the human the story behind each of them is the result not so much of my work at the museum, but of my long-term experience as a journalist at “24 Chasa”, said Dr. Stavreva at the opening of the exhibition at the Cross Barracks Museum in Vidin.
Dozens of citizens came to the event. Deputy was also there. the regional governor Ani Harutyunyan, the mayor of Belogradchik Boyan Minkov, the deputy mayor of Vidin Borislava Borisova, the chairman of the 42nd NA Mikhail Mikov, and the deputy chairman of the 49th Rositsa Kirova sent a congratulatory address.
“The construction of ideas about a city is in the postcards, which show views of Vidin and Belogradchik with their historical and cultural sights, architecture, streets, buildings, people and atmosphere. In this sense, the images on the postcards are of primary importance with their communicative-memorial function.
They give us a visual memory of the two cities from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, but the traveling postcards are something more – they acquire an archival character with the texts and signatures on them,” says the author.
One of the most interesting cards traveled to Miss Durand in Algeria, dated October 17, 1918. The card itself is of military units of the 15th Lom infantry regiment, photographed against the background of Belogradchik and the rocks.
The postmark is from the French military post. It is noteworthy that the lower part containing the postal sector number has been deleted.
Its deletion was applied from November 1917 to 1919 to the military correspondence of the Eastern Army, part of which during the First World War was deployed and fought in the Balkans. The measure is, for
not to locate the military units on the seal of intercepted mail
“The card with the view from Belogradchik traveled during the French occupation of Vidin and Belogradchik after the Thessaloniki Armistice of September 29, 1918, and brings us back to this tragic moment in Bulgarian history,” said Vanya Stavreva.
Even more interesting are some of the identified card recipients. Among them is the bandmaster of the 34th Trojan Infantry Regiment, Kamen Lukov, to whom a card was sent in 1911. He is the composer of the “Vesel i v boya” march, which after the First World War became the ceremonial march of the Bulgarian Army, as well as until today.
The collection includes postcards that traveled to the founder of the first steamship agency in our country, Toma K. Bakrachev; to the co-founder of the first private bank “Girdap”, established in 1881 in Ruse, to the tsarist officer who later became an associate of G. Dimitrov and V. Kolarov in the preparation of the September Uprising, Nikola Aganski; to Prof. Razum Andreychin and Prof. Spiridon Ganev; to Asen D. Marchevsky, translated for Todor Zhivkov, Zhelyu Zhelev, Georgi Parvanov, who was also a translator during the case against Sergey Antonov.
“Identifying the senders is almost impossible,
as their signatures are illegible, but one of them is the artist Nedko Kableshkov from the family of the revolutionary Todor Kableshkov, who created the art gallery in Kyustendil.
The addressees of his cards are no less curious and are also from the Kableshkov family,” the author said.
After Vidin, Dr. Vanya Stavreva’s exhibition will be shown in Belogradchik for the city’s holiday on June 29, St. Peter’s Day.