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The Kableshkov House (Tues-Sun 9.30am-5.30pm) was built by a local master-craftsman in 1845. Its square plan and the combination of one curved and two square oriels on each side reflects the influence of the Plovdiv style. The ground floor preserves the simple living quarters of a reasonably prosperous chorbadzhii family, including a "women's work room" with a spinning wheel, and the room where Todor Kableshkov was born in 1851. Weapons used in the Rising are displayed on the top floor, whose circular vestibule has a wonderful ceiling with an abstract pattern based on the reflection of sunlight on rippling water. Kableshkov's decision to start the Rising ahead of schedule, after Turkish soldiers came to arrest him, was made at the "House of the Conspiracy" on a nearby street. Kableshkov was later captured near Troyan, but managed to kill himself with a police revolver in Gabrovo, and is commemorated by a statue close to the Bridge of the First Shot , where the Rising began.
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