FROM 7 TO 31 DECEMBER 2022 
110 years since the beginning of the Balkan War (1912 - 1913)
Regional Ethnographic Museum - Plovdiv

On 7 December (Wednesday) at 17.30 pm at the Regional Ethnographic Museum - Plovdiv will be opened the exhibition "110 years since the beginning of the Balkan War (1912 - 1913)" of the National Chitalishte "Rhodope Spark 2020", village of. Lilkovo, located 5 km. from Mount Modar - the place where the first rifle of the Balkan War "cracked". The exhibition aims to present some of the unique and particularly valuable documents that are kept in the Department of State Archives - Plovdiv, Regional Ethnographic Museum - Plovdiv and the personal archives of the people of Lilkovo.
In the exposition you can see documents from the funds of the Collection "Balkan War (1912-1913)", the result of many years of research activity of the experts of the "State Archive" - Plovdiv and especially of the chief expert Vladimir Balchev. There are also texts, which are a selection of materials from the books of the Lilkovo local historians. The memories of the people of Lilkovo. They reveal not only the military situation, but also the atmosphere in the settlements, the anxiety and expectations in the peaceful population in the border areas, the tension and the readiness for sacrifice.
Visitors to the exhibition will also have the opportunity to get acquainted with the contents of the notebook of Angel Bukoreschliev /teacher, musicologist, composer, choir conductor/. This small notebook with 79 checkered pages is an invaluable source about the fate of an ordinary soldier during the war. Music was the only consolation in the hard days of war. Bukoreschliev's eyewitness account of the burning of his native village of Plevnya is harrowing: 'The picture was terrible - very few houses standing, and all the others in ashes; people massacred rolling in the streets; the village deserted...'. In the museum's collections there is also evidence of the tribulations of a Bulgarian company in the lands of White Sea Thrace and Macedonia, photos from the Balkan War: a group of officers and soldiers, a view from the barracks of the 21st Srednogorsk Regiment in Pashmakli, a military pilgrimage, etc.
At the opening of the exhibition, Nelly Ingram, a student from the Lyuben Karavelov Secondary School in Pashkent. She will play Bach Sonata No. 4 on the violin.
The exhibition will be on display in the REM Plovdiv lounge until the end of 2022.