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revolutionary dead 5 january 1952 turin , italy resne , ottoman empire 16 december 1869 hristo tatarčev.jpg hristo tatarchev
 hristo tatarchev
hristo tatarchev

hristo tatarchev -lrb- , , december 16 , 1869 - january 5 , 1952 -rrb- was a bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in macedonia and eastern thrace -lrb- the organization was renamed to imaro in 1906 and imro in 1920 -rrb- .
he wrote the memoirs `` the first central committee of the imro '' -lrb- 1928 -rrb- .
he authored several political journalism works between the first and second world wars .
he is considered an ethnic macedonian in the republic of macedonia .
tatarchev was born in the town of resen in ottoman macedonia to 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 in resen , then he moved to eastern rumelia and studied in bratsigovo -lrb- 1882 -rrb- and eventually at the secondary school for boys in plovdiv -lrb- 1883 -- 87 -rrb- .
it was at that time when he participated in the unification of bulgaria and enrolled in a students ' legion , which took part in the serbo-bulgarian war of 1885 .
tatarchev was expelled from school because of `` insubordination '' and he moved to romania , where he continued his secondary education .
later he studied medicine at the university of zurich -lrb- 1887 -- 1890 -rrb- and completed his degree in medicine in berlin -lrb- july 1892 -rrb- .
he moved to thessaloniki in 1892 , where he worked as physician at the local bulgarian secondary school for boys .
he was a founding member of the bulgarian macedonian-adrianople revolutionary committee -lrb- renamed to imaro in 1906 -rrb- , which was established on october 23 , 1893 in thessaloniki .
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 in bodrum castle in asia minor .
although he was granted amnesty on august 19 , 1902 , tatarchev did not give up revolutionary fight and in august 1902 he became a representative of the foreign committee of the imro in sofia .
being such , he met with the minister of foreign affairs of russia , vladimir lamsdorf -lrb- 1845 -- 1907 -rrb- , who had arrived in bulgaria at the end of 1902 .
tatarchev presented lamsdorf with an imaro-designed plan of reforms to be introduced in macedonia .
tatarchev and vladimir lamsdorf organised a meeting to review the revolutionary ideas which could result in a successful revolt , tatarchev always supported the macedonian cause , his intentions and views were completely different to his comrade jane sandanski .
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 came in conflict with the supporters of jane sandanski and did not participate in the activities of the imro to the kyustendil congress in march 1908 , where he was appointed as an adviser to the voreign committee of the imro .
after the young turk revolution he openly supported the union of the bulgarian constitutional clubs , but did not participate in its activities .
in 1910 he was elected a reserve member of the central committee of imro .
when bulgaria entered the balkan wars and the first world war , tatarchev was sent to the front as a regimental physician .
at the end of the wars he was one of the initiators of the temporary representation of the former imaro .
in the fall of 1920 he entered the macedonian federative organization .
shortly after that tatarchev was forced to emigrate in italy , because of significant discord between then imro 's leader todor alexandrov and him .
he lived briefly in his native resen during the second world war , when macedonia was annexed of bulgaria -lrb- 1941 -- 1944 -rrb- .
later he returned to sofia , but in 1943 after the bombings there tatarchev moved to nova zagora .
he was offered in 1944 from ivan mihaylov to became a president of the independent state of macedonia , but he refused .
it was unclear as to why tatarchev refused to become president to a new macedonian state .
the second world war proved to be a never-ending war and due to the situations in europe , tatarchev declined the offer .
in december 2009 , his mortal remains were brought from turin to bulgaria by vmro-bnd , a contemporary national political party claiming descent from the imro .
tatarchev 's refuneral took place in sofia , on october 23 , 2010 , exactly 117 years since the founding of the imro .
