12 Facts About Nikola Karev

Nikola Yanakiev Karev was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary.

Nikola Karev was born in Krusevo and died in the village of Rajcani both today in North Macedonia.

Nikola Karev was a teacher in the Bulgarian Exarchate school system in his native area, and a member of the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party.

Nikola Karev completed his early education at the Bulgarian school in Krusevo and in 1893 moved to Sofia, the capital of Principality of Bulgaria, where he worked as a carpenter for the socialist Vasil Glavinov.

Nikola Karev joined the Socialist group led by Glavinov, and through him, made acquaintance of Dimitar Blagoev and other socialists, and became a member of the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party.

In 1898 Nikola Karev went back to Ottoman Macedonia and graduated from the Bulgarian Exarchate's gymnasium in Bitola.

Nikola Karev added that Bulgaria's expectations to annex the region were miscalculated and that the revolutionaries would accept anyone's help in order to attain their goal.

Nikola Karev himself tried to minimize the attacks on the Muslims and prevent the insurgents from looting indiscriminately.

In 1904, Nikola Karev made a legal attempt to return to Macedonia, taking advantage of the Bulgarian-Ottoman Amnesty Agreement for the participants in the Ilinden Uprising.

Nikola Karev sent several applications for amnesty to Istanbul through the cabinet of the Bulgarian Prime Minister Racho Petrov.

Nikola Karev's remains were buried in Rajcani, a village near the locality where he was killed.

In 2008, a large bronze equestrian monument of Nikola Karev was placed in front of Parliament Building in Skopje, cast by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry of Florence, Italy.