Not a portrait

Nikola

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Cut-out detail; background removed. Historical printed reproduction of the German slab with three crosses and a short inscription. — Fyodor Uspensky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

They were his father Nikola, his mother Ripsimia and his brother David.

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Not a portrait · Unknown scribe; texts by Synkellos and Theophanes; digitisation: National Library of France · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Kubrat
Not a portrait · Fyodor Uspensky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Ripsimia
Fresco · Dimitar Zograf · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
David
Not a portrait · Fyodor Uspensky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Moses
Not a portrait · Fyodor Uspensky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Aaron
Later artistic depiction · Nikolai Pavlovich (1835–1894) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Asparuh

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Sources

Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Beate Zielke; Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Samuel (#26983) Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit, Zweite Abteilung (867–1025), online database
National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences The official opening of the exhibition “Tsar Samuel († 1014) in a battle for Bulgaria” is coming up NAIM-BAS, news,7 October · 2014
Predrag Komatina The Diocesan Structure of the Archbishopric of Ohrid in the Charters of Basil II: Historical Development until the Early 11th Century PDF Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta · 2023 · 60 · 789–821

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Fyodor Uspensky File:SamuilUspenskyBGHistory.png Wikimedia Commons; imageinfo API metadata and image inspected

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Not a portrait

Fyodor Uspensky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Not a portrait: Samuil’s family inscription, reproduction published in 1899. Illustration to the passage mentioning Nikola.

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Fyodor Uspensky / Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Historical printed reproduction of the German slab with three crosses and a short inscription. Processed image.

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