Doctors' Garden
Two weeks ago we walked through a small park in the center of Sofia = Doctors' Garden. The central feature of the park is a simple monument, with chipped, inscribed stones around its four sides.
The inscriptions are names, hundreds of them. According to an article in Vagabond Magazine, which we just read, we learned that the stones bear the names of 531 doctors and nurses, all of them Russian medical workers who died in the 1877-8 Russo-Turkish War which liberated Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.
The inscriptions are names, hundreds of them. According to an article in Vagabond Magazine, which we just read, we learned that the stones bear the names of 531 doctors and nurses, all of them Russian medical workers who died in the 1877-8 Russo-Turkish War which liberated Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.
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