National Ethnographic Museum
Folk costumes, crafts and village traditions displayed in a former nineteenth-century royal palace.
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This guide to the National Ethnographic Museum in Sofia, housed in the former royal palace, goes back to one August night in eighteen eighty-six, when Prince Alexander of Battenberg was asleep in his own residence and soldiers were marching into the capital. It follows the officers who felt cheated after a victorious war, the promises reaching them from Russia, and Stefan Stambolov, the parliamentary speaker who refused to play along. Best heard facing the palace facade, looking up at its tall windows.
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