House-Museum of Stanislav Dospevski considered only Bulgarian museum dedicated to the artist who worked in the Renaissance period in Bulgaria. The museum building was built in 1864 by the builders of the city Bratsigovo, it is a two-story, six rooms and a lounge (a tribute to the traditions of the time).

Stanislav Dospevski - a native of the town of Samokov, came from a family well-known masters painters. Dospevski Born in 1823, Father Stanislaw - Dimitar Zograf, who is the grandson of the founder of the famous in the country of the Samokov art school Hristo Dimitrov name, Uncle Stanislav - Zahari Zograf, who was also considered one of the most talented artists and painters of the period. The first time Stanislav trained skills in his hometown, and then continued in Plovdiv, and has received Dospevski academic education at universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg. This artist's name - Zafir Dimitrov Hristov, he succeeded him on his return from Russia. Last name was borrowed from the name of his grandfather's hometown - Dospey located near the village of Samokov. Stanislaw lived in Paris and Plovdiv.

Dospevski was one of the first national artists and painters who received an academic education. He was the founder of the secular portraiture. A talented artist participated in the political life of the country - in the national liberation movement for the liberation from the Turkish slavery. For participation in this movement he was seized and thrown into prison Constantinople, where he died in January 1878, when the Liberation was to 2 months.

The guests house museum can visit all areas of the house. Here are the things and objects of the artist and his family. The highest bidder and importance are, of course, works of art Stanislav Dospevski. In the museum there are three wall-paintings, such as "Square with the monument to Pushkin in Odessa", "The Prophet" Golden Horn "at Constantinople" and "Changing of the guard in front of the Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg", which were written in 1866. Only here the tourists can see genuine matriculation Dospevski and a silver medal, which he received at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

The house-museum family Dospevski officially received this status in 1952 and became a monument of architecture and culture in 1964