Forgotten photos of the Russian-Turkish war

November 21 at 12.00 in the Museum of Artillery, in St. Petersburg, the exhibition "Forgotten photographs of the Russian-Turkish war."

The exhibition will open as part of the Days of the Spiritual Culture of Bulgaria in Russia. Photos from the collection of the Bulgarian artist and photographer Ivo Hadzhimisheva, lifetime honorary member of the Royal Association of Photographers of Great Britain. For many years, Ivo Hadzhimishev collects, processes and shows contemporaries the best examples of Bulgarian photography of the last century. In 1877, Russian troops took Plevna, in a difficult moment, came to the aid of the fraternal people of Bulgaria. In the old photographs of 1878-1879 presented at the exhibition, the events of the Russo-Turkish war come to life, the heroic pages of Russian history reappear before the viewer. The exhibition will last until December 3, and the exhibits themselves will be solemnly donated by the owner as a gift to the Artillery Museum.

On the same day, within the framework of the Days of Bulgaria in St. Petersburg, a large gala concert of Bulgarian opera stars will take place, in which, in addition to outstanding Bulgarian opera soloists, one of the best tenors in the world Vladimir Galuzin and the Mikhailovsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov will take part. Earlier, as part of the project, performances by the Bulgarian chamber ensemble “Sofia Soloists” and the unusual male choir “Ioan Kukuzel”, performing Bulgarian Orthodox chants, have already taken place in various cities of Russia.

More about the exhibition: http://www.artillery-museum.ru/library-temporal-poster.html