Vienna akademia vasil levski biography
Vasil Levski, the man - what was he like?
Piece by piece, the puzzle of Bulgarian history is being put together. New and unexpected discoveries fill in the missing places, adding more and more details to the events and portraits of the most prominent sons and daughters of Bulgaria.
In 2018, a previously unknown photo of the Deacon caused a sensation, and only two years later, Bulgarian historian and Ottomanist Dr. Grigor Boykov, one of the most prominent researchers of Vasil Levski's life and work, came across an old register of the male population of Karlovo from those years. It shows that Vasil Ivanov Kunchev was born in 1840, i.e. three years later than what was known in the history books.
"Unfortunately, neither a baptismal certificate of young Vasil, nor a church register has been preserved. This is the main reason for the big discrepancies in the date and year of the Apostle's birth - explains Nadezhda Petrova, curator at the National Museum "Vasil Levs Vasil levski biography.