- Hristo Tatarchev
Infobox Person
name = Hristo Tatarchev
caption = revolutionary
birth_date = birth date|1869|12|16|mf=y
birth_place =Resen ,Ottoman Empire
dead=dead
death_date = death date and age|1952|1|5|1869|12|16|mf=y
death_place =Turin ,Italy Hristo Tatarchev ( _mk. Христо Татарчев,
December 16 1869 -January 5 1952 ) was a revolutionary and leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia andEastern Thrace . (the organization was renamed to IMARO in 1906 and IMRO in 1920). He wrote thememoirs "The First Central Committee of the IMRO" (1928). He authored severalpolitical journalism works between the First andSecond World War s.Tatarchev was born in the village of
Resen , Macedonia in a rich family. His father Nikola Tatarchev was a successful banker, and his mother Katerina was a descendant of a prominent family. Hristo Tatarchev received his initial education inResen , then inBratsigovo (1882) and eventually at the Secondary school for boys inPlovdiv (1883-87). It was at that time when he enrolled in a students' legion, which took part in theSerbo-Bulgarian War of 1885. Tatarchev was expelled from school because of "insubordination" and he moved toRomania where he continued his secondary education. Later he studiedmedicine at theUniversity of Zurich (1887-1890) and completed his degree in Medicine inBerlin (July 1892). He moved toThessaloniki in 1892, where he worked as physician at the local Bulgarian secondary school for boyscite book
last =Shea
first =John
title =Macedonia and Greece: The Struggle to Define a New Balkan Nation
publisher =McFarland & Company
date =1997
pages =p. 171
isbn =0786402288 ] .He was a founding member of the
Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee (renamed to IMARO in 1906), which was established onOctober 23 1893 inThessaloniki . In the following year he was elected President of the Central Committee of IMARO. Tatarchev participated in the Thessaloniki Congress of BMARC in 1896.In early 1901 he was caught by the Ottoman authorities and sent into
exile for 5 years inPodrum Kale inAsia Minor . Although he was grantedamnesty onAugust 19 1902 , Tatarchev did not give up revolutionary fight and in August 1902 he became a representative of the Foreign Committee of the IMRO inSofia . Being such, he met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs ofRussia ,Vladimir Lamsdorf (1845-1907), who had arrived inBulgaria at the end of 1902. Tatarchev presented Lamsdorf with an IMARO-designed plan of reforms to be introduced in Macedonia.During the
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903, Tatarchev guided the revolutionary fight, as the emigrant representation turned out to be the sole governing body of the organization. To his credit, Tatarchev did not desert the revolutionary campaign when the uprising was quelled.Later he was again part of the emigrant agency of IMARO, as an additional member. When
Bulgaria entered theFirst World War , Tatarchev was sent to the front as a regimental physician. At the end of the war he was one of the initiators of the Provisional Representation of the United former IMARO.In the fall of 1920 he entered the Macedonian Federative Organization, which was founded shortly after that. Tatarchev was forced to emigrate because of significant discord between the IMRO's leaders and him. Hristo Tatarchev settled in
Turin ,Italy , where he died onJanuary 5 1952 .References
External links
* A collection of Hristo Tatarchev's [http://www.promacedonia.org/ht/index.html interwar publications] bg icon
* Hristo Tatarchev's [http://www.angelfire.com/super2/vmro-istorija/Knigi/spomht.html memoirs] mk icon
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