Recipients of Bulgarian Military Awards and Decorations: Recipients of the Order of Bravery - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 118. Not illustrated. Chapters: Recipients of the Order of Bravery, Recipients of the Order of Military Merit (Bulgaria), Recipients of the Order of St Alexander, Alexander Iii of Russia, Boris Iii of Bulgaria, Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Carol I of Romania, Stefan Stambolov, Sava Mutkurov, Milan I of Serbia, Nikola Zhekov, Nikola Ivanov, Radko Dimitriev, Stiliyan Kovachev, Mihail Savov, Stefan Toshev, Ivan Fichev, Samara Flag, Zahari Stoyanov, Vladimir Stoychev, Boris Drangov, Georgi Todorov, Vladimir Vazov, Vasil Kutinchev, Danail Nikolaev, Antoni Piotrowski, Kliment Boyadzhiev, Panteley Kiselov, Pencho Zlatev, Racho Petrov. Excerpt: Alexander III Alexandrovich (10 March 1845 1 November 1894) (Russian: , Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich) reigned as Emperor of Russia from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. Unlike his assassinated father, liberal-leaning Alexander II, Alexander III is considered by historians to have been a repressive and reactionary tsar. Tsarevitch Alexander later Alexander III. by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky.(1865) The Di Rocco Wieler Private Collection, Toronto, CanadaAlexander III was born in Saint Petersburg, the second son of Czar Alexander II by his wife Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. In disposition, he bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle Alexander I, who coveted the title of "the first gentleman of Europe". Although an enthusiastic amateur musician and patron of the ballet, he was seen as lacking refinement and elegance. Indeed, he rather relished the idea of being of the same rough texture as the great majority of his subjects. His straightforward, abrupt manner savoured sometimes of gruffness, while his direct, unadorned method of expressing himself harmoni...