1. Hristo Tatarchev was a Macedonian Bulgarian doctor, revolutionary and one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.
16 Facts About Hristo Tatarchev
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Hristo Tatarchev was born in the town of Resen, in the Ottoman Empire, to a rich family.
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Hristo Tatarchev's father Nikola Tatarchev was a successful merchant, and leading member of the Bulgarian Exarchist community in Resen, and his mother Katerina was a descendant of a prominent family.
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Hristo Tatarchev received his initial education in Resen, then he moved to Eastern Rumelia and studied in Bratsigovo and eventually at the secondary school for boys in Plovdiv.
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Hristo Tatarchev was expelled from school because of "insubordination" and he moved to Romania, where he continued his secondary education.
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Hristo Tatarchev moved to Thessaloniki in 1892, where he worked as a physician at the local Bulgarian secondary school for boys.
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Hristo Tatarchev was a founding member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, which was established on 23 October 1893 in Thessaloniki.
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Hristo Tatarchev participated in the Thessaloniki Congress of IMRO in 1896.
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Hristo Tatarchev presented Lamsdorf with an IMRO-designed plan of reforms to be introduced in Macedonia.
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When Bulgaria entered the Balkan Wars and the First World War, Hristo Tatarchev was sent to the front as a regimental physician.
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Shortly after that, Hristo Tatarchev was forced to emigrate to Italy, because of significant discord between then IMRO's leader Todor Alexandrov and him.
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Hristo Tatarchev lived briefly in his native Resen during the Second World War, when Macedonia was annexed by Bulgaria.
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Later he returned to Sofia, but in 1943 after the bombings there Hristo Tatarchev moved to Nova Zagora.
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Hristo Tatarchev's nephew, Asen Tatarchev, was an IMRO activist in interwar period.
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Hristo Tatarchev married Sophia Logothetis, a daughter of the Greek consul in Bitola.
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Hristo Tatarchev's reburial took place in Sofia, on 23 October 2010, exactly 117 years since the founding of the IMRO.