Hristo Botev

Hristo Botev was born in 1848 in Kalofer, the son of the schoolmaster Botyo Petkov, a figure of the National Revival. Sent to the gymnasium of Odessa, he read the Russian radical thinkers there, then settled in the autumn of 1867 in Romania, where he taught and contributed to the émigré press before founding his own newspapers, Budilnik in 1873 and Zname in 1875. Close to Vasil Levski, he seized the Austrian steamer Radetzky on the Danube in May 1876, with some two hundred men, and reached the Bulgarian bank. He died in 1876, at the age of twenty-eight.

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• PoetryThe Poems of Hristo BotevПесни и стихотворенияHristo Botev · 1875Literature