Zahari Stoyanov

Zahari Stoyanov (1850, village of Medven, Bourgas Region – September 2, 1889, Paris) was one of the organizers and a participant in the Bulgarian national movement for liberation. He was an apostle in the IV revolutionary Plovdiv district during the April uprising in 1876. He was a member of the Tarnovo District Court (1880). He persisted in and helped the Unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia in 1885. In 1886 he moved to Sofia. He was a member of the Parliament (1886), a deputy chairman (1887) and a chairman of the Parliament (1888-1889). Zahari Stoyanov was a biography and memoirs writer and a novelist. His most significant work is “Memoirs on the Bulgarian Uprisings. A first- hand account. 1870 – 1876”. This is the greatest book of the middle 1880’s, a story about the committees and the uprisings from the near past, a result from a long-standing rationalization, collection of facts and documents, memories and accounts of eyewitnesses and participants in the events.