On April 24, 1946, the communists invaded the Rila Monastery, where they broke the grave of Tsar Boris III and took out his mortal remains.
The abbot of the holy monastery Kalistrat resisted, for which he was arrested, tortured for days in the basements of the militia and finally shot.
This is recalled by the Bulgarian Committee "Napredak".
The leader of this "operation" was Lev Glavinchev, who in 1944. killed the publicist and founder of the newspaper "Shturets", Rayko Aleksiev, in the most brutal way, leaving his three minor sons orphans.
The mortal remains of H.V. The Tsar were reburied in the "Vrana" palace, near Sofia. And in 1954, on the orders of Vulko Chervenkov, the second grave of Boris III was packed with explosives and blown up.
After November 10, 1989, a parliamentary commission led the search for the mortal remains of the Tsar, but only his heart was found, which was located in the burial place in the park of the "Vrana" palace. It was reburied in the place of the restored grave in the Rila Monastery in 1993.