Nikolai Pavlovich

After his return to Svishtov, he also tried his hand at lithography, theater set design, home decoration and iconography, which included 73 icons for the Church of the Holy Trinity.

[1] He became the first modern-style history painter in Bulgaria, joining his father in promoting the Revival, and continued to do portraits.

His best-known sitters included Tsvetan Radoslavov (his nephew), Ivancho Hadzhipenchovich and Nikola Zlatarski [bg].

[1] In the 1860s, he travelled to Belgrade, where he met Georgi Sava Rakovski and illustrated Няколко речи о Асеню първому, a book of patriotic speeches.

Four years later, he moved to Sofia, where he became a teacher at the "Софийска класическа гимназия", a high school for boys, remaining there until his death.