National Museum Steamship “RADETZKY”
BG-3320 Kozloduy
(Wraza / Vratsa)
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Info Telefon: +359 973 80744
Besucher-Email: radetzky@mail.bg
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The Radetzky steamboat from the end of the 19th century is the only floating museum in Bulgaria. It has been set up to commemorate the life and works of Bulgaria’s great revolutionary and poet Hristo Botev. Hristo Botev was the leader of a 200-strong detachment that landed on the Bulgarian bank of the river Danube near Kozloduy in the spring of 1876 to assist their nation in an uprising against the five-century-old Ottoman oppression. On May 16, 1876, Hristo Botev and his fellow combatants stepped on board the Austrian steamboat “Radetzky” performing its regular cruise on the river Danube. Hristo Botev took hold of the vessel and forced the captain, a certain Captain Englaender, to throw anchor by the Bulgarian bank of the river, near the then village of Kozloduy. The captain surrendered and even wished the Bulgarian insurgents luck in their courageous mission. After a few days of fighting, the Turkish troops, who outnumbered the Bulgarian militants manifold, defeated them and the leader Hristo Botev met his death. The memory of his heroic deed will stay on as a symbol of the self-sacrifice in the name of the liberation of the motherland. Two years later Bulgaria was already an independent state and the residents of Kozloduy staged the first revival of the historic landing on the Bulgarian bank. (c)DatabaseVDCMSMünchen 2006
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