Balgarianovinite.com More than 200 amateur performers and representatives of patriotic organizations took part in a large-scale reenactment of the 1876 April Uprising in Klisura, Kalina Nedkova told BTA. She is a member of the Memory of Klisura Association, established to organize, support, and carry out the celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the April Uprising and the reenactment of moments from the uprising in Klisura.
She shared that the people of Klisura participate in these events every year, but this year’s anniversary requires greater efforts to be made to mark it appropriately.
According to her, the first major and large-scale reenactment of the April Uprising took place in 1926, exactly 100 years ago, and since then, with few exceptions, similar events have been organized every year to reenact moments from the uprising.
This year, as always in Klisura, the reenactment began on May 1 with the proclamation of the April Uprising. The leaders delivered their impassioned speeches to the rebels in 20 April Square, after which everyone set off toward the Zli Dol area. There, the battles between the rebels and the Ottoman forces were reenacted, followed by the suppression of the uprising and the burning of the town.
To mark this significant anniversary, the reenactment also featured, for the first time, the meeting of two correspondents with Grandpa Stayko, who was returning with his grandchildren and other residents of Klisura from Varlishnitsa after 38 days on the run, Nedkova explained. “Correspondents asked him where he was going, since Klisura had been razed to the ground. Then the old man asked them, ‘Is the sky above Klisura still there?’ They replied, ‘Yes, the sky is there, just as it is here above us.’ Then he said, ‘As long as the sky is there, we will build a new Klisura,'” Nedkova told BTA. She added that Klisura was the second settlement to rise during the April Uprising but was set ablaze and burned first. This scene was the new element in the reenactment – the moment of hope that, after everything they had endured, the people of Klisura managed to raise Klisura from the ashes.
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