Knyaz Boris High School

The building of the former boys' high school "Knyaz Boris" was built in 1894 - 1898 according to the project of arch. Petko Momchilov and arch. Jordan Popov. It has a classic shape, symmetrical rectangular body, enclosed courtyard, direct lighting of rooms and corridors. It consists of a ground floor, first floor and a basement under the whole building, where the central heating was with hot air heaters built into the walls.
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The high school is one of the oldest and most elite schools in Bulgaria, the successor of the secular class school founded in 1840, it had rich classrooms, auditoriums, a drawing and gymnasium, laboratories and a library. Here is the beginning of the Ruse Museum in 1904 with the two rich collections of archeology and natural history, which were collected by the founders of Bulgarian archeology Hermingild and Karel Shkorpil, teachers at the high school. This is where the career of Doctor of Philosophy Nikola Bobchev began, here Stoyan Mihajlovski, a teacher of French, wrote the text of "Go people revived", and Tsvetan Radoslavov, also a teacher at the high school, in 1885 created the text of the national anthem "Mila Rodino" .
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Alumni of the high school are Acad. Mihail Arnaudov, Prof. Petar Mutafchiev, Prof. Boyan Penev, the writer Yordan Yovkov, the actor Sava Ognyanov, Prof. Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin, Prof. Stoyan Brashovanov.

Source: Doikov, V., Dimitrova, M. The buildings - the European cultural heritage of Ruse. R., 2013