Inauguration of a monument to Vasil Levski in Warsaw
13 March 2026 News
On March 6, 2018, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Poland, Margarita Ganeva, and the Director General of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, Kiril Valchev, inaugurated a monument to Vasil Levski in the courtyard of the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Warsaw - in front of the Consular Service.
The celebration was attended by a representative of the Warsaw Municipality, members of the Bulgarian community in Poland, representatives of the arts, journalists, representatives of the Bulgarian Sunday School "Dora Gabe", entrepreneurs and other guests.
In her speech, Ambassador Margarita Ganeva recalled that Ambassador Emil Yalnuzov, the Ministry of Defense and donors from the Bulgarian community contributed to the idea of creating a monument to Vasil Levski in 2018. After 2021, the team of the Bulgarian Embassy in Warsaw will resume work on the preparation and approval of a project for the monument, given the status of the embassy and its adjacent territory as a “cultural monument” in the Polish capital.
The location of the monument in front of the Consular Service of the embassy allows for daily access to it by all visitors – Bulgarian, Polish and foreign citizens. The Ambassador highlighted the personality of the Apostle as a spiritual bridge between Bulgaria and Poland and their struggles for freedom, equality and territorial integrity.
Special thanks were extended to the sculptor of the bust Stanislav Korchev and the architect Tseno Todorov for the design of the overall project and the space around it, as well as for the preparation of the documentation related to the official permission for the construction of the monument by the Polish institutions.
During the ceremony, BTA Director General Kiril Valchev emphasized that Levski’s work transcends geographical and historical borders, because the struggle for freedom is universal. He noted that the Apostle’s ideas also resonated in the Polish struggle for independence in the 19th century, and the two peoples are united by a common value – freedom, which the Polish writer Adam Mickiewicz defined as “the only distinctive feature of civilization”.
The opening ceremony was also attended by students from the Bulgarian Sunday School “D. Gabe” – Warsaw, who presented poems dedicated to Vasil Levski in Bulgarian and Polish.
Mrs. Elena Gelemenova – a patriotic Bulgarian from Lovech, actively supporting the activities of the Bulgarian Sunday School, made a donation in honor of the opening of the monument – a poem dedicated to the Apostle of Freedom.
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