The First Russian Monuments in Bulgaria Devoted to the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 – 1878: Transformations of Memory
The First Russian Monuments in Bulgaria Devoted to the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 – 1878: Transformations of Memory

Summary/Abstract: We focused our research on the first steps of the Russian state towards raising 303 gravestone-monuments immediately after the ROW in 1878. The history of the first Russian monuments devoted to the Russo-Ottoman War reveals the lack of any Bulgarian tradition of memory culture in the first decades after the war. The first memorial places were imported from abroad, from the victorious Russian Empire, and were marked by the tradition of the Russian religious memory culture. Depending on the Bulgarian-Russian and later Bulgarian-Soviet relations the monuments changed their meaning and function being reinterpreted in accordance to the political situations.

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