Архитектите Димитър Цолов и Иван Васильов
The architects Ivan Vasilyov and Dimitar Tsolov

Summary/Abstract: The two great Bulgarian architects, whose ancestral roots are in Teteven, but were born in Svishtov, after receiving their high school education in Pleven and Sofia, graduated their higher education in Germany and for a few decades after the First World War created most of the landmark buildings in Bulgaria such as the buildings of the Bulgarian National Bank, the Ministry of War, the University Library, the National Library, and many others. Their biographies exemplify the dramatic events in the history of the Third Bulgarian State, as from rebuilders of a temple blown up by the communists and creators of royal properties and buildings of largescale merchants, they had to participate after 1944 in the design and construction of the Party House, complexes for the Red nomenclature, the Soviet Army Monument, the Friendship Bridge, and other largescale socialist sites, which saved them from the typical persecutions against German graduates.

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