Georgi Mamarchev | |
Native Name: | Георги Мамарчев |
Native Name Lang: | bg |
Birth Date: | 1786 |
Birth Place: | Kotel, Bulgaria |
Death Place: | Samos |
Branch: | Russian Imperial Army |
Serviceyears: | 1810–1835 |
Rank: | Captain |
Commands: | Bulgarian Countrymen's Army |
Battles: | Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) Battle of Borodino Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) |
Georgi Mamarchev (bg|Георги Мамарчев; 1786 – 16 July 1846) was a Bulgarian fighter against the Ottoman rule and a captain in the Imperial Russian Army. Mamarchev was the uncle of the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Sava Rakovski.[1] [2]
Due to the merits of Mamarchev and out of respect for his work, Rakovski took the name of his uncle. [3]
Mamarchev was the mastermind of the Bulgarian Conspiracy of 1835. [4] He was not executed only because he was a Russian citizen, but he was exiled to the island of Samos, where he died. [5] [6]