• The Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum (Bulgarian: мавзолей на Георги Димитров) was a ceremonial tomb on Prince Alexander of Battenberg Square in Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • Deifying A Dictator – Preserving DimitrovThe death of Georgi Dimitrov was just as rapid and improbable as the construction of his mausoleum.
  • Archive photo of the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov. Photo: Various e-media. Archive photo of the casket holding Georgi Dimitrov's embalmed body.
  • The history of the mausoleum starts on 2 June 1949, when Georgi Dimitrov died unexpectedly in Moscow.
  • Deifying A Dictator – Preserving Dimitrov The death of Georgi Dimitrov was just as rapid and improbable as the construction of his mausoleum.
  • Installation in public space by Krassimir Terziev at the site of the former mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov, Sofia, 2021 - 2023.
  • When my husband was a young boy in then People’s Republic of Bulgaria, he was taken to visit the mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov.
  • It was built in 1949 to house the embalmed body of Georgi Dimitrov, the first leader of Communist Bulgaria.
  • The construction of the Mausoleum was begun right after the news of Dimitrov's death.