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Just north of bul. Knyaz Boris I, at the southern end of ul. 27 Yuli, stands the National Revival Museum (Mon-Fri 10am-5pm;US$1), occupying the former Church of Archangel Michael and the premises of Varna's first Bulgarian school. Both school and church were established here in the 1860s, much to the chagrin of the local Greeks, who formed the majority in this part of town and were accustomed to controlling educational and ecclesiastical affairs. A preserved schoolroom includes the balustraded pulpit from which the teacher surveyed his pupils, the latter sitting in wooden pews and using sand trays to write in. Discipline was ensured by placing older boys at the end of each row of pews to supervise the younger ones. The former girls' classroom upstairs holds photographs and texts telling the history of nineteenth-century Varna, with lithographs celebrating the town's liberation by Russian forces in 1877.
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