Todor Hristov (officer)

Todor Hristov, also known as "the Little officer" was a Bulgarian military officer and revolutionary, activist of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.[1][2]

Todor Hristov, known as Ofitsercheto, i.e. the Little officer.

Biography

Hristov was born on January 20, 1883, in Sofia, Bulgaria. Some sources mistakenly claim that he was born in Veles, then in Ottoman Empire,[1][3] because his parents were refugees from there.[4] He studied at the Military School in Sofia, graduating in 1902 with the first prize for best achievement.[5] Hristov began service in Fifth Cavalry Regiment in Sofia. In the early spring of 1903 he left the military service and went to Macedonia, joining the Pitu Guli detachment operating in the Krusevo region. At the Smilevo Congress of the Bitola revolutionary district in May 1903, he was elected a member of the Forest Command and military leader of the uprising in Krushevo. During the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in the summer of 1903, he was among the leaders of the defense of Krusevo Republic. At the end of the uprising, he tried to withdraw to Bulgaria together with a group of 18 rebels. They participated on September 21 in a battle near the village of Biljača, in today's Serbian municipality of Bujanovac.[6] Todor Hristov and 11 other rebels were killed by the Ottomans.[1][7]

Notes
  1. Nikolov, Boris J (2001). Internal Macedonian-Edirne Revolutionary Organization. Voivodes and leaders (1893 - 1934). Biographical-bibliographical reference. p. 181. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Short biography of Todor Hristov
  3. Proceedings of the Institute of History at BAS, Volume 25 , 1981, p. 253.
  4. Eldarov, Svetozar (2019). "Snezhana Radoeva. Lieutenant Todor Hristov-Officer (1883 - 1903). S., Paradigma Publishing House, 2019, 191 pages with ill. ISBN 978-954-326-389-9". Macedonian Review. Sofia: МНИ. XLІI (3): 150–154.
  5. Konstantin N. Kondov, Memoirs 1874 - 1929, p. 84.
  6. Konstantin N. Kondov, Memories 1874 - 1929 , p. 96.
  7. Gotsev , Slavcho. "The Ilinden Uprising in the Skopje Revolutionary District"
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