Zankoff. Governor of the city of Svishtov (Bulgaria)

Zankoff. Governor of the city of Svishtov, one of the chief leaders of the rebel government formed after the kidnapping of Prince Alexander of Battenberg (1857-1893). It was the first Ottoman city to be liberated, with the help of Russia, during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), becoming a territory of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria. Portrait. Engraving. La Guerra de Oriente (The Russo-Turkish War). Volume II. 1877

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