The Crimean War (1853-1856) The Atlas of Napoleon III and the Bulgarian lands

Name:          “The Crimean War (1853-1856) The Atlas of Napoleon III and the Bulgarian lands”

Author:       Ivan Roussev

Available:  Economics University of Varna Book Store

Price:          30BGN

ISBN:          978-954-09-1588-3

Ivan Roussev, DSc, is a Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Professor of Modern Bulgarian History at the Department of Management and Administration of the University of Economics in Varna, where he teaches Economic History and European Studies. He graduated the St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo with an M.A. degree in History in 1989 and received his Ph.D. in Bulgarian History at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1996.

He was Postdoctoral Fellow of the Foundation “Maison des Sciences de l’Homme” in Paris, where he spent nine months as an Associate Research Director (DEA) in the period 2002–2005. In 2012, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (Scientiæ Doctor) in Bulgarian History at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Ivan Roussev is the author of over 200 scientific papers (12 books), mostly related to the history of modernization of trade and the modern commercial culture in the Balkans during the 18^th and 19^th centuries as well as the history of the European consular presence in the Balkans and the Black Sea region during the same period.

He is co-editor of History of Varna, vol. II (7^th c.–1878), Varna, 2012. His most significant monograph is titled The commercial modernization during the Bulgarian National Revival period (18^th – 19^th cc.) as a culture and a practice, Veliko Tarnovo, 2015.