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Exhibition: 'Bulgaria through the Mirror of Time'
Rome celebrates its 140-year relationship with Sofia
11 December, 14:14
(ANSA) - TRIESTE, DECEMBER 11 - Thirty-six precious
photographic plates and an interactive set-up with 3D
projections and multisensory experience to tell the story of
Bulgaria in the 1920s and 1930s are on display in the exhibition
'Bulgaria through the Mirror of Time', focusing on the 140th
anniversary of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Italy.
The exhibit, coming from Sofia, can now be admired in the Museum of Rome in Trastevere. The ancient photographic finds, explain the curators Irina Dilkova and Milena Kaneva, had been preserved wrapped in faded and typewritten sheets of paper. Therefore, the exhibition features diplomatic missives, news from Reuters or BTA (Bulgarian news agency) dating back to the 1920s and 1930s.
Thus, the most interesting news has been printed in the format of the newspapers of the time and is part of the exhibition.
Even the history of these 36 plates is quite unusual. They arrived in Bulgaria at the behest of an Italian noblewoman of Bulgarian origin, Nadezhda Bliznakov De Micheli Vitturi, who in 1996 gave them to the then-first lady of Bulgaria, Antonina Stoyanova. They belonged to her grandfather, Marko Bliznakov, one of the founders of the country's port activities. Bliznakov had graduated in Belgium with a degree in engineering and was subsequently sent, at the behest of Prince Ferdinand, to specialize in port engineering in Trieste. The early 20th century saw him a successful businessman, happily married to the Italian Petronilla Veneziani, and Honorary Consul of Bulgaria in Italy. Italo Svevo's brother-in-law, Bliznakov was part of the cosmopolitan Trieste of the early 20th century, including the writer James Joyce among his closest friends. The exhibition, promoted by Rome Capital, Department for Cultural Growth (Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage), will be inaugurated this evening and will remain open to the public from tomorrow and until January 12, 2020. (ANSA).
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The exhibit, coming from Sofia, can now be admired in the Museum of Rome in Trastevere. The ancient photographic finds, explain the curators Irina Dilkova and Milena Kaneva, had been preserved wrapped in faded and typewritten sheets of paper. Therefore, the exhibition features diplomatic missives, news from Reuters or BTA (Bulgarian news agency) dating back to the 1920s and 1930s.
Thus, the most interesting news has been printed in the format of the newspapers of the time and is part of the exhibition.
Even the history of these 36 plates is quite unusual. They arrived in Bulgaria at the behest of an Italian noblewoman of Bulgarian origin, Nadezhda Bliznakov De Micheli Vitturi, who in 1996 gave them to the then-first lady of Bulgaria, Antonina Stoyanova. They belonged to her grandfather, Marko Bliznakov, one of the founders of the country's port activities. Bliznakov had graduated in Belgium with a degree in engineering and was subsequently sent, at the behest of Prince Ferdinand, to specialize in port engineering in Trieste. The early 20th century saw him a successful businessman, happily married to the Italian Petronilla Veneziani, and Honorary Consul of Bulgaria in Italy. Italo Svevo's brother-in-law, Bliznakov was part of the cosmopolitan Trieste of the early 20th century, including the writer James Joyce among his closest friends. The exhibition, promoted by Rome Capital, Department for Cultural Growth (Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage), will be inaugurated this evening and will remain open to the public from tomorrow and until January 12, 2020. (ANSA).
