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Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian doctor and revolutionary, the first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace. He wrote a memoirs called The First Central Committee of the IMRO (1928). Tatarchev authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World War. According to post-WWII Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic Macedonian.
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Hristo Tatarchev (Macedonian and Bulgarian: Христо Татарчев; 16 December 1869 – 5 January 1952) was a Macedonian Bulgarian doctor, revolutionary and one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). Tatarchev was the first president of IMRO's Central Committee.
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Biography Tatarchev was born on 16 December 1869 in the town of Resen, in the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia), to a rich merchant family. His father Nikola was a banker and merchant, and a leading member of the Bulgarian Exarchist community in Resen, while his mother Katerina was a descendant of a prominent family from Jankovec. When he was eight, Albanian bandits robbed his home, and his mother ended up dying due to the shock from the experience. 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. He participated in the Unification of Bulgaria and enrolled in a students' legion, which took part in the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885. Influenced by socialist ideas, Tatarchev wanted to go abroad to study philosophy, but his father insisted on medicine. He ended up studying medicine at the University of Zurich and completed his degree in Medicine in Berlin in 1892. He returned to Ottoman Macedonia in 1892, where he worked as a physician at the local Bulgarian secondary school for boys in Thessaloniki. Tatarchev had treated Dame Gruev for eczema. He talked with Gruev…
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Relatives Tatarchev's relatives were also involved in the Macedonian revolutionary movement. His brother Mihail was an activist of IMRO and the mayor of Resen during the Bulgarian occupation of Serbia in the First World War, when he was killed. His nephew, Asen Tatarchev, was also an IMRO activist in the interwar period. In 1946, he was sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment, by the Yugoslav authorities for collaborating with the Bulgarian occupational authorities during World War II. Tatarchev's grand nephew, Ivan Tatarchev, became Bulgaria’s prosecutor general after the fall of communism and was elected honorary chairman of the IMRO – Bulgarian National Movement in the 1990s. Tatarchev married Sophia Logothetis, a daughter of the Greek consul in Bitola.
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Legacy In North Macedonia, he is seen as an ethnic Macedonian revolutionary. In December 2009, his remains were brought from Turin to Bulgaria by VMRO-BND, a political party claiming descent from IMRO. Tatarchev's reburial took place in Central Sofia Cemetery, on 23 October 2010, 117 years since the founding of IMRO. In 2004, his birthplace collapsed due to old age and neglect, but it was rebuilt as a memorial house with the initiative of the VMRO-DPMNE government led by Nikola Gruevski, opening on 4 April 2016. Tatarchev Nunatak on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, is named after him.