Victoria Angelova was born on 20 November 1902[1] in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria to Vasil Angelov, a merchant who had been educated in England.

She graduated from the Vienna University of Technology and the Dresden Polytechnic[2] in 1924, seven years after Maria Luisa Doseva-Georgieva earned her license.

Although Angelova won the contest, she was required to have the experienced architects Georgi Ovcharov [bg] and Yordan Yordanov (Bulgarian: Йордан Йорданов) oversee her work.

The building covered an entire city block known as "Slaveykov Square" and was bounded by "GS Rakovski", "William Gladstone" and "Han Krum " streets.

The wide corridors and high ceilings are offset by stained glass designed by Haralampy Tachev [bg] and made in Munich by F. Seiler.

The building was completed in 1942 and opened featuring a first floor which housed Renaissance paintings by Stanislav Dospevski, Nikolai Pavlovich, Hristo Tsokev, Zahari Zograf, as well as handcrafts from regions noted for folk artworks, such as Tryavna, Samokov and others.

The building required a complex design due to the steep slope of the site and its panoramic view of the entire gulf area.

[8] Angelova won the contract for the construction of the hospital and building was to begin shortly before World War II started.