Georgi Sugarev

Who was Georgi Sugarev?

Georgi Kostov Sugarev was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, vojvoda of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. Despite the Bulgarian national identification of the late Ottoman Macedonia Slavic revolutionaries, and most of the local Slavic population then, in the Republic of Macedonia they, including Sugarev, are added to the country's historical heritage as Ethnic Macedonians.

Sugarev was born in 1876 in Bitola, then in the Ottoman Empire, today in the Republic of Macedonia. His family was very poor and his mother together with his brothers Hristo, Mihail and Vangel emigrated to the United States and actively participate in the activities of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization. Vangel became there a historian and author of several books as "The Bulgarian nationality of the Macedonians" and "The constitution of the Bulgarian revolutionary central committee".

Sugarev completed fourth grade of Bulgarian Men's High School of Bitola. Afterwards he became a Bulgarian teacher firstly in Demir Hisar, then in Kichevo, and finally in Bitola. However he left the school system and decided to join the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation.