“I was born on September 30, 1947 in Razgrad. My professional path has passed at the Antibiotics Plant. We are three sisters, I am the youngest. Our father’s name was Asen Strashimirov Kostov, and our mother’s name was Minka Vachkova Slavova.
My paternal grandmother’s name was Ivanka. She comes from Dryanovo. At the end of the 19th century, after her family lost their livelihood in Dryanovo, grandmother Ivanka moved to the village of Brestovene, and then to Razgrad. Here she met my grandfather Strashimir Bahnev, with whom they started a family and returned to Brestovene again.” This is what Nadia Asenova Strashimirova says, who donated to the Regional History Museum items and documents that belonged to her grandfather and father.
Strashimir Bahnev was with roots from Razgrad. Everyone in his family was highly educated. He had two sisters – Donka and Rosetta. Rosetta was the first woman in Bulgaria who completed a doctorate in linguistics in Italy. She was married to a Serbian consul in Bulgaria, but Nadia Asenova does not know his names.
According to her, her grandfather participated in the balkan war, inter-allied war and first world War. With the exception of her father, his other children were born during the periods of his short-lived return from the front. And Nadezhda, the youngest, was born, he was no longer among the living. Died by an enemy bullet from an ambush on 21.12.1916, guarding an armory of the Bulgarian Army in the village of Satul Nou – Romania.
Nadia Strashimirova’s father was born on Saint Nicholas Day in 1908 in Brestovene. According to her, around 1926, Asen Strashimirov entered military service for three years in Shumen – in the 7th Preslav Infantry Regiment. His professional path began at the fire station in Razgrad.
“The album I provided was in my father’s possession, a memory of his military service. On one of the photos in the album, my father is also marked with a red circle. The certificate of popular recognition of my grandfather Strashimir Bahnev was accompanied by a cross for bravery “St. George”, received posthumously by his heirs. Unfortunately, the traces of the bravery cross have been lost somewhere in time”, says Nadia Asenova.
The photo of the Alibey mill in Hisarluk was given to her father by Dobri Kostov, his good friend.
The sad news of the death of Donka Kostakeva Tomova was sent to her father. And on the obituary with pencil, Nadya Asenova adds the information about her sister Rosetta, who completed her doctorate in Italy.
The provided items and documents are now part of and enrich the funds of the Regional History Museum in Razgrad.The provided items and documents are now part of and enrich the funds of the Regional History Museum in Razgrad.
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