Racho Petrov
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25 January 1901 – 5 March 1901
19 May 1903 – 5 November 1906
9 September 1885 – 29 April 1887
23 October 1887 – 15 April 1894
10 July 1887 – 1 September 1887
27 April 1894 – 29 November 1896
10 December 1900 – 4 March 1901
21 January 1901 – 4 March 1901
18 May 1903 – 4 November 1906
Shumen, Ottoman Empire
Belovo, Bulgaria
- Serbo-Bulgarian War
- First Balkan War
- Second Balkan War
- World War I
- Balkans Campaign
Racho Petrov Stoyanov (Bulgarian: Рачо Петров Стоянов) (3 March 1861 – 22 January 1942) was a leading Bulgarian general and politician.
Petrov was born in Shumen. A talented soldier, he was appointed Chief of General Staff at the age of 24 and was Minister of Defence at 27.[1] His stature was increased by the leading role he took in suppressing an army mutiny in 1887.[2] He married Sultana Pantaleeva Minchovich in 1887, with whom he had 3 children. After an unhappy marriage, they divorced in 1919.[3]
Both Petrov and his wife were personally close to Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria[4] and in 1891 he was promoted by Ferdinand to the rank of colonel, the first officer to hold that rank in Bulgaria.[5] Petrov also attended Ferdinand's wedding to Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma in Italy in 1893.[6] Ferdinand's decision in 1894 to place Petrov in charge of the army completely, and thus outside the command of Prime Minister Stefan Stambolov, precipitated the resignation of the latter.[7]
As a politician, he twice served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, initially as the non-party head of an interim administration in 1901, the only task of which was to organize the next election.[8] He returned as prime minister for a longer period from 1903 to 1906, having been appointed for fear of war after a Bulgarian insurrection in Ottoman Macedonia.[9] His government was particularly concerned with military matters and oversaw an armament program and extensive modernization of the Bulgarian army.[10]
During the Second Balkan War Petrov, by then a Lieutenant General, took command of the 3rd Army, leading it at the Battle of Bregalnica, a Serbian victory.[11]
During the First World War he served as head of the newly established Macedonian Military Inspection Oblast from December 1915 until October 1916.[12]
See also
Notes
- ^ Standart News - Archive | Wednesday, 3 May 2006 Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine at www.standartnews.com
- ^ Plamen S. Tsvetkov, A History of the Balkans: A Regional Overview from a Bulgarian Perspective, EM Text, 1993, p. 79
- ^ Popov, Zheko. "Popular Vote in Bulgaria". PEOPLE'S LIBERAL PARTY IN BULGARIA 1903-1920. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ Duncan M. Perry, Stefan Stambolov and the Emergence of Modern Bulgaria, 1870-1895, Duke University Press, 1993, p. 151
- ^ Perry, Stefan Stambolov, p. 183
- ^ Perry, Stefan Stambolov, p. 194
- ^ Perry, Stefan Stambolov, pp. 205-206
- ^ Ivan Ilčev, Valery Kolev, Veselin Yanchev, Bulgarian Parliament and Bulgarian Statehood: 125 Years National Assembly 1879-2005, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2005, p. 71
- ^ R. J. Crampton, A Concise History of Bulgaria, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 127-128
- ^ Tsvetkov, A History of the Balkans, p. 85
- ^ Richard C. Hall, The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War, Routledge, 2002, pp. 110-112
- ^ National-liberation movement of the Macedonian and Thracian Bulgarians 1878-1944. Macedonian Scientific Institute, Sofia, 1997, ISBN 954-8187-32-9. pp. 361-362, 396
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Preceded by | Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1901 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1903–1906 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Minister of War 1887 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Minister of War 1894–1896 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Minister of Interior 1900–1901 | Succeeded by Mihail Sarafov |
Preceded by | Minister of Foreign Affairs 1901 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Minister of Foreign Affairs 1903–1906 | Succeeded by |
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