Museum Lajos Kossuth (Shumen)

Bulgaria / Sumen / Shumen / Tsar Osvoboditel St, 115
 listed building / architectural heritage, 19th century construction, historic house museum
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Museum of Renaissance life and architecture in Shumen fits in house Dimitraki Hadzhipanev - longtime mayor and a prominent public figure. It was in this house resided Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth - a lawyer, Minister of Finance and interim head of state of Hungary in 1849 after the defeat of the Hungarian revolution, the national hero emigrated to Bulgaria and settled in Shumen. After the conversion of the Austrian Empire in dual monarchy Austria-Hungary, Kossuth condemned the so-called compromise as detrimental option compatriots emigrated to Italy, where he lived for the rest of his life. It was declared by Abraham Lincoln 's "most worthy and prominent representative of the cause of civil and religious liberty of the continent of Europe."

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Coordinates:   43°16'19"N   26°55'26"E