Bulgarian Statesmen Remember Revolutionary Hero Hristo Botev

Bulgarian statesmen remembered Monday the heroic death of Hristo Botev and his volunteer freedom fighters. Photo by Darik News

Bulgarian statesmen visited Monday the Yolkovitsa region near the northwest city of Vratsa where the Bulgarian revolutionary hero, Hristo Botev, was killed in 1876.

The Parliament Chair Pirinski, MP Bozhinov, and Vratsa Mayor Mladenov accompanied by dozens of people remembered one of the greatest Bulgarian freedom fighters and poets.

After spending years with the secret Bulgarian revolutionary organization aiming to liberate Bulgaria from the Ottoman Turkish Empire, in May 1876, Botev led a detachment of 205 Bulgarian immigrants in Romania who volunteered to fight against Ottoman forces in order to help the Bulgarian rebels at the time of the April Uprising (April-May 1876).

After capturing the Radetsky steamship in order to cross the Danube into Bulgaria, and fighting the overwhelming Ottoman forces in Northwest Bulgaria, Botev's detachment was defeated, and on June 2, the commander Botev himself was killed in battle - a death pretty much like the one he had foreseen in his poems.

More information on Bulgarian poet and revolutionary hero Hristo Botev is available at http://www.hristobotev.com (in Bulgarian).

The official remembrance events of Hristo Botev and all Bulgarian freedom fighters are held all across Bulgaria on June 2 every year with a minute of silence at 12 pm sharp.

 

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