The Svetlin Rusev Donative Exhibition is a permanent art exhibition in Pleven, Bulgaria, including over 400 works of Bulgarian and foreign art donated by the noted Bulgarian artist and collector Svetlin Rusev. The exhibition occupies the three-storey historic building of the former public baths built in the 1900s and commissioned to Nikola Lazarov, who combined […]
It is situated in the north – west corner of the village. It was built by the Romanian people, for immortalizing the memory of his courageous sons who died in the bloodiest battles during the times of the Liberation War from 1877 – 1878. In the proximity there are situated the historical redoubts Grivishko, in […]
The exhibition shows the activities of the headquarters of the Russian army and its commander – Prince Nikolai Nikolaevich. Special attention is given to the participation and the role of the Russian artillery in the war. Among the exhibits are photos, documents and objects from that period, as well as restored guns and cannons used […]
The remains of the fortress’ Storgozia “are in the park” Kaylaka “near Pleven, which has been inhabited since the Bronze Age. It was built in late antiquity IV-VI century by the Romans in an area of 31 acres. The fortress walls are two meters thick, lined with stones soldered with white plaster. Inside the fortress […]
Founded in 1953, is one of the largest museums in Bulgaria. The museum is situated in a two-story edifice near the centre of Pleven that is a monument of culture of national importance and has an area of 7,000 m². Its main stock includes over 180,000 units and the museum library houses over 10,000 volumes […]
Skobelev Park is a museum park in the vicinity of Pleven, Bulgaria. It was built between 1904 and 1907 on the very battlefield of the Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, specifically the third assault of General Mikhail Skobelev’s detachment between 30 August and 11 September 1877.
In 1977, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary from the liberation of Pleven, on the real battle field, in the Skobelev park it is built the museum Panorama “the Epical Pleven 1877”. The authors of the architecture design are Plamena Țaceva and the colleague of the design team Ivo Petriv. The construction for the […]
