Racho Petrov

Racho Petrov Stoyanov (Bulgarian: Рачо Петров Стоянов) (3 March 1861, Shumen – 22 January 1942) was a leading Bulgarian general and politician.

A talented soldier, Petrov was appointed to be Chief of General Staff at the age of 24 and was Minister of Defence at 27. During the First World War he served as Chief of the 4th Army.

As a politician he twice served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria as the non-party head of an interim administration and then for a longer period from 1903–1906, having been appointed for fear of war after a Bulgarian insurrection in Ottoman Macedonia..

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Military offices
Preceded by none	Chief of the General Staff 1885–1887	Succeeded by Stefan Paprikov
Political offices
Preceded by Danail Nikolaev	Minister of War 1887	Succeeded by Sava Mutkurov
Military offices
Preceded by Stefan Paprikov	Chief of the General Staff 1887–1894	Succeeded by Nikola Ivanov
Political offices
Preceded by Mihail Savov	Minister of War 1894–1897	Succeeded by Nikola Ivanov
Political offices
Preceded by Vasil Radoslavov	Minister of Interior 1900–1901	Succeeded by Mihail Sarafov
Political offices
Preceded by Todor Ivanchov	Prime Minister 1901	Succeeded by Petko Karavelov
Political offices
Preceded by Dimitar Tonchev	Foreign Minister 1901	Succeeded by Stoyan Danev
Political offices
Preceded by Stoyan Danev	Prime Minister 1903–1906	Succeeded by Dimitar Petkov
Political offices
Preceded by Stoyan Danev	Foreign Minister 1903–1906	Succeeded by Dimitar Petkov

See also

• List of Bulgarian generals in the Kingdom of Bulgaria