1. Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov, was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party from 1933 to 1949, and the first leader of the Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1949.
Georgi Dimitrov was elected to the Bulgarian parliament as a socialist during the First World War and campaigned against his country's involvement in the conflict, which led to his brief imprisonment for sedition.
In 1923, Georgi Dimitrov led a failed communist uprising against the government of Aleksandar Tsankov and was forced into exile.
Georgi Dimitrov lived in the Soviet Union until 1929, at which time he relocated to Germany and became head of the Comintern operations in central Europe.
Georgi Dimitrov rose to international prominence in the aftermath of the 1933 Reichstag fire trial.
In 1946, Georgi Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria after 22 years in exile and was elected prime minister of the newly founded People's Republic of Bulgaria.
Georgi Dimitrov negotiated with Josip Broz Tito to create a federation of Southern Slavs, which led to the 1947 Bled accord.
Georgi Dimitrov died after a short illness in 1949 in Barvikha near Moscow.
Georgi Dimitrov's embalmed body was housed in the Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum in Sofia until its removal in 1990; the mausoleum was demolished in 1999.
The first of eight children, Georgi Dimitrov was born in Kovachevtsi, in present-day Pernik Province, to refugee parents from Ottoman Macedonia.
Georgi Dimitrov's father was a rural craftsman, forced by industrialisation to become a factory worker.
Georgi Dimitrov's mother, Parashkeva Doseva, was a Protestant Christian, and his family is sometimes described as Protestant.
Georgi Dimitrov was sent to Sunday school by his mother, who wanted him to be a pastor, but he was expelled at age 12.
Georgi Dimitrov then trained as a compositor, and became active in the labor movement in the Bulgarian capital.
Georgi Dimitrov joined the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1902.
From 1904 to 1923, Georgi Dimitrov was Secretary of the General Trade Unions Federation, which the Narrows controlled.
Georgi Dimitrov opposed government policies in the Balkan Wars and World War I In 1915, he voted against awarding new war credits and denounced Bulgarian nationalism, for which he received short prison sentences.
In summer 1917, after he intervened in defense of wounded soldiers who were being ordered by an officer to clear out of a first-class railway carriage, Georgi Dimitrov was charged with incitement to mutiny, stripped of his parliamentary immunity, and imprisoned on 29 August 1918.
Georgi Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria later in 1921, but then travelled again to Moscow and was elected in December 1922 to the Executive Bureau of Profintern, the communist trade union international.
Georgi Dimitrov's only surviving brother, Todor, was arrested and killed that year by royal police.
Georgi Dimitrov then relocated to Germany where he was given charge of the Central European section of the Comintern.
Georgi Dimitrov was living in Berlin in early 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis took power.
Georgi Dimitrov decided to refuse counsel and defend himself against his Nazi accusers, most famously Hermann Goring.
Georgi Dimitrov used the trial as an opportunity to defend the Communist ideology.
Georgi Dimitrov was being groomed to take control of the Comintern from two of the so-called "Old Bolsheviks", Iosif Pyatnitsky and Wilhelm Knorin, who had held the position since 1923.
Georgi Dimitrov was the dominant presence; he was elected the Comintern's General Secretary.
Georgi Dimitrov noted in his diary when Julian Leszczynski, Henryk Walecki, and several members of his staff were arrested, but again did nothing, though he did raise questions when the NKVD representative in Comintern, Mikhail Trilisser, was arrested.
In 1946, Georgi Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria after 22 years in exile.
Later that year, he succeeded Kimon Georgiev as Prime Minister, though Dimitrov had already been the most powerful man in the country since the monarchy was abolished two months earlier.
Whereas Georgi Dimitrov envisaged a state where Yugoslavia and Bulgaria would be placed on an equal footing and Macedonia would be more or less attached to Bulgaria, Tito saw Bulgaria as a seventh republic in an enlarged Yugoslavia tightly ruled from Belgrade.
Georgi Dimitrov was aware of the subversive activity of Koci Xoxe and other pro-Yugoslav Albanian officials.
Georgi Dimitrov accepted the invitation, but Tito refused, and sent his close associate Edvard Kardelj instead.
At the 5th Congress of the Bulgarian Workers' Party, Georgi Dimitrov accused Tito of "nationalism" and hostility towards the internationalist communists, specifically the Soviet Union.
In 1906, Georgi Dimitrov married his first wife, Serbian emigrant milliner, writer and socialist Ljubica Ivosevic, with whom he lived until her death in 1933.
Georgi Dimitrov and his wife adopted another child, Boiko Dimitrov, born 1941.
Georgi Dimitrov died on 2 July 1949 in the Barvikha sanatorium near Moscow.