Marko Boshnakov
Marko Boshnakov | |
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 Portrait of Marko Boshnakov | |
| Born | 1878 |
| Died | 1908 |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
Marko Boshnakov (Bulgarian: Марко Бошнаков; 1878 – 1908) was a Bulgarian anarchist,[1][2][3] participant in the Macedonian revolutionary movement and a member of the Gemidziite.
Biography
[edit]Boshnakov was born in 1878 in Ohrid, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Macedonia. Later he became a member of Gemidziite while studying in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki and participated in the Thessaloniki assassinations.
He rented a shop on the opposite side of the Ottoman Bank in Thessaloniki, since there are foundations he dug a tunnel to the bank and he placed there dynamite. Later in that shop Jordan Popjordanov burned the fuze and bombed the Ottoman Bank. He is one of four Gemidzhii (Pavel Shatev, Georgi Bogdanov and Milan Arsov) who were arrested and brought before a special court.
All four were sentenced to death but his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. Marko Boshnakov died on February 15, 1908, in the Libyan province Fezzan.[4][5] His skull was brought by Satev and Bogdanov in Macedonia. Remains of Marko Boshnakov head ware placed in a decorative wooden catafalque and buried in the cemetery in the church Sv. Virgin Perivlepta.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ [Freedom or death, the life of Gotsé Delchev, Mercia MacDermott, Journeyman Press, 1978, pp. 354-356.
- ^ l В Македония под робство, Солунското съзаклятие (1903 г.), подготовка и изпълнение. Павел Шатев, стр. 327-355.(Трето издание, Изд. на Отеч. фронт, София, 1983 г.)
- ^ Петдесетте най-големи атентата в българската история: Класация на най-важните заговори, покушения, саботажи и отвличания до 2000-та година, Крум Благов, Репортер, 2000, стр. 131.
- ^ Кратки биографии на атентаторите; Short biographies of the assailants
- ^ Мариан Гяурски, „Анархизмът в македоно-одринското националнореволюционно движение: Солунските атентатори“ Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
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