With several initiatives, the Regional History Museum in Veliko Tarnovo is commemorating 151 years since the death of the Apostle. "Levski in our hearts" is the theme of the educational initiative "Museum in a Suitcase", which visited schools and..
The Vasil Levski Sunday School in Paris was founded in 2006 and is the oldest of the 5 Bulgarian schools in the French capital. The moment children first cross its threshold, they learn who the Bulgarian Apostle of Freedom is, because his portrait..
In February Bulgaria marked the 150th anniversary since the death of its national hero Vasil Levski, who sacrificed himself in the name of the national freedom. July 18, which marks Vasil Levski's birth anniversary, is yet another occasion to..
The Bulgarian school in Southampton, Great Britain, bears the name of the Bulgarian 19th century revolutionary Vasil Levski who dedicated himself to the liberation of his Motherland from the Ottoman oppression. On the occasion of marking the..
President Rumen Radev, who attended the ceremony at the monument to Vasil Levski marking the 150th death anniversary of the national hero, started his speech with the following words of the Apostle of Freedom: "The path you have to walk does not end..
“In the pantheon of Bulgarian freedom there are many names, but in the national memory Levski is incomparable. Few are loved as strongly and unconditionally as Levski. Perhaps because the Bulgarian people needed its Apostle of Freedom not only..
150 years after the hanging of Vasil Levski, a commemorative plaque made by sculptor Ivan Sirakov from Veliko Tarnovo will be solemnly unveiled in the center of Sofia. It is expected to put an end to the unknowns regarding the eternal..
In the 1860s Bulgarians were feeling that the old order within the Ottoman Empire was irretrievably gone and the time for big changes was coming. Newspapers spread the news of revolts and wars across the Balkans and Europe. The intensification..
It is 150 years since the day on which Vasil Levski, known as the Apostle of Freedom, was hanged in the outskirts of Sofia, a spot that is now in the centre of Bulgaria’s capital city, but the memory of him has lived on. As he himself wrote in a..
Levski, The Apostle, Deacon Ignatius... These are just some of the names by which people know Vasil Ivanov Kunchev (18 July 1837 – 18 February 1873), the national hero of Bulgaria, who has become a symbol of struggle for freedom and..
