Georgi Benkovski

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Georgi Benkovski (1843–1876)

Georgi Benkovski (

April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.[1][2][3]

Biography

Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant and craftsman Gruyo Hlatev, Benkovski was a native of the bustling sub-

Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Persian
.

Benkovski became involved in the revolutionary activities of the

Abdülaziz
.

He was given the

life sentence on Sakhalin. Anton Benkowski managed to flee to Japan, where he acquired a passport and from where he fled to the Ottoman Empire. In Diyarbakır, the Pole met Zaimov and traded his French passport for five Turkish liras and the assistance to acquire an Ottoman passport
.

Benkovski was initially selected as Panayot Volov's assistant in the organization of the 4th Revolutionary District of the April Uprising, but due to his fervour and leadership qualities Volov conceded the position of head apostle to Benkovski voluntarily.[5] Thanks to Benkovski's work, the insurrectional preparations developed best in this district.

When the April Uprising broke out prematurely in Koprivshtitsa on 2 May [

railway station.[6] One of the Croats, Stephen the Dalmatian, went to become the band's final standard-bearer. One woman also joined the band: Maria Ivanova-Sutić, the Bulgarian wife of a Croatian railway worker.[7]

In the wake of the uprising's suppression, Benkovski and the surviving members of the band (Stephen the Dalmatian, Zahari Stoyanov and Father Kiril) headed to the Teteven Balkan Mountains. On 24 May [O.S. 12 May] 1876, the band's location was betrayed by a local shepherd and the revolutionaries were ambushed by an Ottoman search party. Benkovski was shot dead in the Kostina area near Ribaritsa while crossing a river bridge. He was subsequently beheaded; his head was sent to Botevgrad and then to Sofia. The events were documented by Zahari Stoyanov and published in his Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings; the author was the only one of the four who managed to escape.

Honours

football club FC Benkovski Byala and the Bulgarian Air Force
academy also bear his name.

Gallery

  • Benkovski's native house in Koprivshtitsa
    Benkovski's native house in Koprivshtitsa
  • Benkovski's bust at his native house in Koprivshtitsa
    Benkovski's bust at his native house in Koprivshtitsa
  • Monument to Benkovski at the place of his death in Ribaritsa
    Monument to Benkovski at the place of his death in Ribaritsa
  • Monument to Georgi Benkovski in Sofia
    Monument to Georgi Benkovski in Sofia

Notes

  1. ^ Stoyanoff, Zachary (1913). Pages from the Autobiography of a Bulgarian Insurgent. Translated by Potter, M.W. London: Edward Arnold. Retrieved 16 September 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Report by Mr. Baring on the Bulgarian Insurrection of 1876". The London Gazette. No. 24365. 19 September 1876. pp. 5117–5118.
  3. ^ Crampton, R. J. (2005). A Concise History of Bulgaria (2nd ed.). Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paolo: Cambridge University Press. pp. 78–80.
  4. ^ Stoyanoff, Zachary (1913). Pages from the Autobiography of a Bulgarian Insurgent. Translated by Potter, M.W. London: Edward Arnold. p. 213. Retrieved 18 September 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ MacDermott, Mercia (1962). A History of Bulgaria 1395–1885. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. p. 247. Retrieved 22 June 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ Стоянов, Захари. Четата на Бенковски в Петрич, Еледжик, Сестримо и Белово. Записки по българските въстания [Notes on Bulgarian Uprisings] (in Bulgarian). Литературен клуб. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
  7. ^ Откриване на паметник на Мария Сутич в Пазарджик [Opening of the monument of Maria Sutich in Pazardzhik]. Dir.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2008-10-04.

Bibliography

External links

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