Figures
1 Church of St. Achileios on an island in small lake Prespa 14
2 Samuel’s fortress in Ohrid 16
3 Cyrillic inscription discovered in Bitola in the 1950s 75
4 A modern reproduction of Basil II’s psalter portrait 77
5 Konstandin Shpataraku, icon of St. John Vladimir with twelve scenes from his life, 1739, from the Monastery of Ardenica 159
6 Detail from the scene of icon of St. John Vladimir, 1739, depicting the Saint’s victory over Basil II 160
7 Nikolai Pavlovich “Raina’s fainting”, printed in Vienna in 1874 219
8 Nikolai Pavlovich, “Grandmother Tula and Samuel”, printed in Vienna in 1874 220
9 Unknown artist, “Blinded Samuel’s Soldiers”, after the Czech artist Emil Holarek 263
10 Cyrillic inscription discovered in the 1880s at the village of German, near Prespa, dated 993 283
11 Udo J. Keppler, “At Present He Works Bulgaria”, 1903 298
12 Greek poster from the Second Balkan war in 1913 by Sotiros Christidis, presenting the battle between Greece and Bulgaria at Doiran on June 22, 1913 305
13 Oi Voulgaroktonoi, “The Bulgar-slayers”, Greek poster from the time of the Second Balkan War 1913 by Sotiros Christidis 306
14 Ο ΒΟΥΛΓΑΡΟΦΑΓΟΣ, “The Bulgar-eater”, Greek poster of the Balkan Wars by Sotiros Christidis 307
15 Figure entitled “On the cross of the sufferings”, 1914 311
16 Peter Morozov, “Samuel Hails Triumphant Bulgarian Troops”, 1916 317
17 Mile Topuz and Dragan Taškovski, “Car Samuil”, 1967 360
18 Statue of Samuel placed in the center of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia in 2011 380
19 Statue of Samuel placed in the center of Sofia, the capital of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2015 388
20 Samuel’s tomb in the Church of St. Achileios on an island in small lake Prespa 398
Map
1 “Reich des Zar Samuel zum 996 Jahre”, map of Vasil N. Zlatarski from 1917 320