Ilio Voivoda House Museum

Overview

Ilio Voivoda House Museum is a museum historical collection of the Regional Historical Museum in Kyustendil. It is located at 189 Tsar Osvoboditel Street, in the eastern part of the city. The house was built in the 1870s on the Right Street (now "Tsar Osvoboditel"), at the bottom of a narrow and steep plot, oriented to the northwest to the revival of the Right Street. The plan composition has an axis of symmetry, emphasized by a corner above the entrance. After the Liberation from 1878 to 1898, Ilio Voivoda lived in the house - one of the most prominent figures of the Bulgarian national liberation movement, commander of a volunteer detachment in the Russian-Turkish liberation war of 1877-1878. The house was restored in 1979-1980 and officially opened as a museum in January 1981. Together with the monument to the duke (authors: St. Stoimirov - sculptor, architect Yu. Farkov and eng. Gr. Vladimirov) and the restored houses of others 2 national revolutionary figures from Kyustendil - Konstantin Popgeorgiev and Tonche Kadinmostki, formed a complete Revival memorial complex. In the restored house of Ilio Voivoda there is an exposition on the theme "The national liberation struggles of the population of the Kyustendil region". It traces the struggles of the Bulgarian population from the 15th century until the Liberation and its contribution to the liberation and unification of the Bulgarian people at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The exposition is located in six halls on an area of ​​150 square meters and contains about 800 exhibits. It traces the national liberation manifestations of the population in the Kyustendil region until the Liberation of Bulgaria. The main highlights are the life and work of Ilio Voivoda, the Razlov Uprising of May 1876, the participation of the local population in the Bulgarian militia and the liberation of the city from Ottoman rule in January 1878. In Hall №. 6, which opened in October 2003, shows the role and place of Kyustendil in the struggle for the liberation of Macedonia until the early 1950s.