The tsar who will liberate the Bulgarians? (3) (April-June, 1876)

Centennial Exhibition]

Before May 10, before the start of the Russo-Turkish war, the Russian exhibition of the Centennial Exhibition was being prepared in the city of Philadelphia. Some of the students brought from Russia were in particular carrying equipment to take to their part of the exhibition, one of these was Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov.

"Hey, do you need help with that?" Aleksandr Veniaminovich Bari asks the recent graduate. Bari was a Russian living in the United States, his father had to leave Russia because of his connections (his writings) with Karl Marx.

"Yes, thanks." Shukhov exclaims passing some boxes to Bari.

"What is this?". Bari asks curiously.

"Ah, just laboratory supplies, we are saving the best that Russia can offer for later, or so the interior minister says." Shukhov responds calmly.

Bari is certainly intrigued by this, but then he sees Eda von Grunberg pass by, a Russian woman of German origin who was also attending the exhibition.

Once again the Russian exhibition was mainly cultural, although various engineers and university professors attended who taught in particular the Blinov Cycle and its operation.

Alexei Avvakumovich Naumov, a Russian genre painter, did some works.

Vladimir Shukhov and Aleksandr Bari met, which would be the basis of a very beneficial friendship. Bari also met his wife Eda von Grunberg (Zinaida Yakovlevna).

*******

Speaking of foreigners, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil attended and later traveled to the Second Mexican Empire, where he would celebrate the signing of an agreement for better commercial and diplomatic relations with Emperor Maximiliano I of Mexico and Minister-President Porfirio Diaz.

It was introduced the "Remington 1" typewriter and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.

********

[International]

May 1, in the United Kingdom the Royal Titles Act 1876 is adopted, by which Queen Victoria takes the title of Empress of India.

The "Napoleon of Crime" Adam Worth steals Gainsborough's Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire a London gallery three weeks after its sale at for 10,000 guineas.

Nicolaus Otto and Enter Eugen Langen's company continues to be commercially successful in Russia, so they decide to rename their factory in Saratov to Zavod Gazovykh Dvigateley Russisch, or simply Russich (German for Russian).

The demand for Blinov engines and cars is increasing and expanding their capabilities.

The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States arrives in San Francisco 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York.

On June 19, in Austria-Hungary, Jászkunság, the last remnant of Kunság, is disestablished.

What is Kunság? It is the historical and formerly ethnographic-cultural region of the Cumans or Kuns.

In Spain the Carlist forces of Carlos VII obtain more victories in the north of Aragon, sedimenting the north-east territory for the Carlist forces in Spain, while the southeast belongs to Alfonso XII.

The center of the peninsula is divided between the two powers. The Alphonsist forces, for their part, have planned a counteroffensive for the recovery of Madrid, but it will take time and if it fails it could be defeat.