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Khristo Botev (1848-76)

Bulgarian writer and freedom fighter, educated in Russia. Botev was a member of the Bulgarian liberation committee in Bessarabia and worked as journalist in Braila. His collected patriotic poems was published in Bucurest in 1875, and had major political impact. He also wrote sad lyric love poems. During the April Uprising in 1876 Botev hijacked an Austrian steam boat and crossed the Danube with his "cheta" of 200 Bulgarian immigrants from Romania. The group fought approximately 20 km southwards inside Bulgaria before they were surrounded and neutralized by Ottoman forces in June 1876. Botev is honoured as Bulgaria's national poet.

During his final days on earth, he lived in poverty, devoting himself to the Bulgarian liberation movement through journalistic, literary, and organizational activity. A collection of his patriotic verses, Pesni u stihove (“Songs and Verses”), appeared in 1875

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