Talk:Aleksandr Burago
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[edit] Captain Burago?
IIRC there is a monument to a Captain Burago somewhere in Bulgaria, where the Russian Imperial Army officer by this name took some city (or a fortress) from the Turks with a tiny force, following a joking suggestion to do so from his superior, which Burago had chosen to take seriously and then staged a completely unexpected victorious attack. Sorry I don't recall neither details nor the officer's name. --BACbKA 20:53, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Yesterday I failed to find anything via Google, but I have now looked it up in a Russian search engine [1] and got some pretty impressive answers. The officer's name was Constantin Burago, and the city is Plovdiv, where he's honoured to this day as the leader of the force that liberated Plovdiv from the Ottoman rule. --BACbKA 09:32, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Actually, Google with Cyrillic "Captain Burago" as a query is even better: [2] (answers in Bulgarian and Russian). --BACbKA 09:53, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- According to this, there is indeed a monument of Burago in the Plovdiv City Garden. There is also a street in the city named after him. Todor→Bozhinov 13:40, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. The reference you give is an expansion of the 3rd link in the article page; along with the 1st one they refer to Cpt. Burago as Aleksandr. On the other hand, the 2nd one tells that he was Constantin! I wonder which of the two is correct. Do you live in Plovdiv? If yes, could you please take a picture of the monument for inclusion into the Wikipedia (the one linked to from the article is an external image which can't be uploaded, it's also a pretty low-resolution one)? I also hope that whatever is written on the monument should be the correct name. --BACbKA 14:05, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- No, sorry, I live in Pleven, which is some 200 km to the north across the Balkan Mountains :) I don't think I would visit Plovdiv in the next few months, although if I do I may photograph the monument (I know where the city garden is) with my VGA-camera mobile phone (I don't have anything better for now, unfortunately). Todor→Bozhinov 16:05, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Never mind. Thanks a lot for the exaction, I've changed the first name to Aleksandr. If you could alert some Bulgarian wikipedians from Plovdiv and pass on the same request (for a picture), it would be great. --BACbKA 19:09, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] First name: Aleksandr or Constantin?!
I'm confused about the first name. The external links I put in the initial stub revision seem to disagree as well... --BACbKA 10:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- Yep, they seem to disagree, but it seems like Alexander is more popular. At least the Bulgarian sources mention him as Alexander unanimously [3]. Todor→Bozhinov 16:05, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Date discrepancy
It seems that the discrepancy of the dates given by the various sources stems from two things:
- old/new style dates (this explains the difference between 4th and 16th of January)
- when the order was given and when Plovdiv was considered fallen (the latter seems to have happened in 1AM) — thus the difference between the 15th and 16th
--BACbKA 19:30, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
