Old photos and book illustrations from the era of King Ferdinand, mostly from Czar Ferdinand and His People, by John MacDonald (1913).
Photo captions:
- Czar Ferdinand as Emperor of the Orient (missing from gallery)
- Bulgarian peasant lads of Bazardjik, one of the scenes of the atrocities of 1876-7
- Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria
- Bulgarian peasants dancing the horo dance
- Czar Ferdinand in national costume
- Peasants in Bulgaria in summer
- A prosperous Bulgarian peasant woman of Tirnovo
- Sofia: a view of the Boulevard Dondoukoff
- Boris, Crown Prince of Bulgaria
- General Savoff with Major-Colonel Burmoff
- M. Stambuloff
- Children of the Bulgarian Czar (Eudoxia, Cyril, Boris, and Nadezhda)
- The Czar and Czaritsa of Bulgaria on their wedding day
- Tirnovo, the ancient capital of Bulgaria
- Old market stall in Sofia
- New National Theatre, Sofia
- Panorama of Varna, chief seaport of Bulgaria
- The famous monastery of St. John of Rilo (sic.)
- Bulgarian country girls and children
- Prince Ferdinand and Kuropatkin during maneuvers at the Shipka Pass
- Macedonian rebels during the Turkish period
- H.M. the Queen of Bulgaria in the dress of a Red Cross sister
- King of Bulgaria conferring with General Ivanoff on the field of Lulu Burgas
- Bulgarians’ makeshift transport wagons
- Adrianople: showing the Mosque of Sultan Selim (on the left) and the Old Mosque on the right
Other photos are included in the gallery.
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![bulgarian-peasants-dancing-the-horo bulgarian-peasants-dancing-the-horo](https://bulstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bulgarian-peasants-dancing-the-horo.jpg)
![ferdinand-in national costume ferdinand-in national costume](https://bulstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ferdinand-as-emperor-of-the-orient.jpg)
![prosperous-peasant-woman-of-tarnovo prosperous-peasant-woman-of-tarnovo](https://bulstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/prosperous-peasant-woman-of-tarnovo.jpg)
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![tarnovo-ancient-capital-of-bulgaria tarnovo-ancient-capital-of-bulgaria](https://bulstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tarnovo-ancient-capital-of-bulgaria.jpg)
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