The Bulgarian apostle of freedom - Vasil Levski was arrested on December 27, 151 years ago.
His detention was the result of a series of tragic events that took place in the Kakrina Inn. In national history, it will remain as one of the darkest places. It was here on December 27, 1872 that the Apostle of Freedom was captured by the Turkish guards. The inn is located at the edge of the village in a wooded area. His innkeeper is Hristo Tsonev nicknamed Latinetsa, an associate of Levski. The leader of the Bulgarian national revolution stayed there on December 26, 1872, he was accompanied by his associate Nikola Tsviatkov. Shortly before arriving, they meet Turkish mounted police on the road. Their boss doubts the reasons for Levski's trip, who claimed he was going to look after his vineyard, and informs his superiors about the suspicious passengers. A manhunt is organized and the zaptiye (editor's note: the Turkish uniform police at that time) surround the inn early in the morning the next day. "Levski grabs his gun and the gun of Hristo Tsonev, who sheltered him. The apostle starts to run through the back room, from there through the stable out into the yard, thinking that he will not run into the zaptiye, but they are everywhere. Levski has nowhere to hide, he tries to jump over a fence, shoots one of his pursuers, but is captured," said the curator of the "Kakrina Inn" museum about the stormy events that unfolded.
The inn was bought earlier and was used by the revolutionaries as a place for secret meetings and during the journeys of the apostles around the country. The owner of the inn is the trustee of the organization Hristo Tsonev – Latinetsa.
Levski passed through Kukrina to collect documents of the secret revolutionary committee, which he would later export to Romania. After the robbery of the Turkish treasury in the Arabakonak Pass at the end of September 1872, the Turkish authorities began mass arrests of people suspected of links with the revolutionary committees. A large number of the members of the committees in Teteven, Orhanie, Etropole and Lovech have been detained. During the interrogations, Dimitar Obshti made confessions that facilitated the investigating Turkish authorities, and soon they were on the trail of the Apostle. Therefore, in order to prevent the final failure of the revolutionary organization, Levski went to Lovech to preserve the organization's archives and transfer them to Romania.
Early on December 27, in the inn in the village of Kakrina, Vasil Levski, together with Nikola Tsviatkov and Hristo Tsonev - Latinetsa, were arrested by a specially sent group of soldiers.
A well-known myth tells that in his attempt to escape, the Apostle became entangled in the vines of the inn, was unable to escape, and therefore fell into the hands of the Turks, but this version is still disputed among historians. /BGNES
