Milan Stoilov Explained

Milan Trajkov Stoilov (Macedonian: Милан Траjков Стоилов, Bulgarian: Милан Трайков Стоилов; 1881–1903) was a socialist revolutionary from the region of Macedonia. According to Macedonian historians, he was a Macedonian activist.^[1] However according to Bulgarian historians, he is regarded as a Bulgarian revolutionary.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Biography

Born in Kilkis, then in the Ottoman Empire, Stoilov graduated from the town's Bulgarian primary school and junior high school in 1892 and in 1895, respectively.^[5] In 1902, he graduated from the Bulgarian Theological Seminary in Constantinople.^[6] That year, he began his studies at the Saint Petersburg Military Medical Academy.^[7] In Saint Petersburg, he participated in the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Circle, which was an offshoot of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.^{[8] [9]} Stoilov was a member of the Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society and served as its secretary. He was involved in the third official act of the Society, which included documenting minutes of its 29 December 1902 session.^[10]

In 1903, he left Russia to join the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottomans. In July, he arrived in Sofia and presented himself as a volunteer at the Overseas Representation of the IMARO, from where he was assigned to a detachment going to Ottoman Macedonia under Nikola Dechev.^[11] Stoilov headed a medical squad. He was killed in a fighting in Orizari, near Kočani, on 5 September 1903.^{[12] [13] [7]} According to other reports, he was heavily wounded and captured by the Turks and died in prison in Kočani in 1904.^[14] As a socialist-internationalist, he claimеd that he was not going to die for a certain nation or as a patriot, but as a revolutionary fighting for the good of humanity.^[15]

Stoilov also authored "The Kilkis Vampire" ("Кукушкият вампир"), a didactic novel written in Bulgarian.^{[16] [17] [18]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Ристовски, Блаже . Портрети и процеси од македонската литературна и национална историја . Култура . 1989 . 26 . Mk.
2. Коста Църнушанов, Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него. Университетско изд-во "Св. Климент Охридски", 1992, стр. 59; 61.
3. Танчев, Иван. Македонският компонент при формирането на българската интелигенция с европейско образование (1878 – 1912). Македонски преглед XXIV (3). 2001. с. 59.
4. According to Russian researcher Dmitri Labauri, both Bulgarian and Macedonian historians have created two different views on the early 20th century Slavic Macedonian student emigration in Russia, to which Stoilov belonged. Bulgarian historians mainly emphasize the activities of the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Circle, while Macedonian historians focus on the Slavic-Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society. For more see: Мемуары Христо Шалдева как источник по истории болгарских студенческих объединений в России в начале XX в. (Уральский государственный университет, Екатеринбург) в Россия - Болгария: векторы взаимопонимания. XVIII-XXI вв. Российско-болгарские научные дискуссии. Ритта Петровна Гришина (отв. редактор); Институт славяноведения РАН, Москва 2010, стр. 166-167
5. Блаже Ристовски, Наце Д. Димов: 1876-1916, Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, 1973, стр. 16.
6. Istorija: spisanie na Sojuzot na društvata na istoričarite na SR Makedonija, Sojuz na društvata na istoričarite na Republike Makedonija, 1975, str. 69.
7. Web site: Милан Стоилов . 30 January 2019 .
8. Ристовский, Блаже. Димитрий Чуповский и македонское национальное сознание, ОАО Издательство „Радуга“, Москва, 1999, с. 47.
9. Те носели името „Таен македоно - одрински кръжок“ в дадения град и били в пряка връзка със Софийския върховен комитет, от когото приемали директиви, а сами му докладвали за своята дейност. For more see: Коста Църнушанов, Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него. Университетско изд-во "Св. Климент Охридски", 1992, стр. 53.
10. The minutes contain the ethnic borders of Macedonia, a thank-you to the Slavonic Charitable Society for providing its salon as meeting space, and a decision that a book be written with words in Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Russian. The latter initiative was to "show to the Russian public that Macedonian was no closer to Bulgarian or Serbian than to the Russian language." For more see: Book: Macedonia and the Macedonian People . Blaže Ristovski . 2008 . 202 . SIMAG Holding . 9789989887000 . The third official act of the Society was the brief original minutes of its “regular session” of December 29, 1902, taken by the Society’s secretary, Milan Stoilov, when its Administration was constituted. This document contains the following points: “the borders of Macedonia” on its ethnic territory were defined; it was decided “to thank the Sl[avonic] Ch[aritable] Society as it has allowed our society to hold meetings in their salon” (which was still another official acknow- ledgement of Macedonian national individuality at the Slavic level), and finally, with regard to the question of the individuality of Macedonian in comparison with other Slavonic languages, it was concluded that its members should write down characteristic Macedonian words in a book with pages divided into four sections: Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian, to show to the Russian public that Macedonian was no closer to Bulgarian or Serbian than to the Russian language..
11. Манол Пандевски, Македонија на Балканот: XIV-XX историски координати, Мисла, 1990,, стр. 265.
12. Book: Мемоари . Dimitar Vlahov . 14 . Nova Makedonija . 1970.
13. Book: Istorija . 61 . 1970 . Sojuz .
14. Исторически преглед, Том 45Сътрудници Българско историческо дружество, Институт за история (Българска академия на науките), 1989, стр. 77.
15. Известия на Института за литература, Том 4, (Българска академия на науките), 1956, стр. 121.
16. Book: Tushe Vlahov . Кукуш и неговото историческо минало. Второ допълнено издание. . 1969 . 164 .
17. В кукушката библиотека се намираше в ръкопис дидактическата повест „Кукушкият вампир“, написана и илюстрирана от загиналия през 1903 г. революционер - интернационалист Милан Стоилов. Книгата бичуваше пиянството и прекомерната употреба на мастика. For more see: Известия на Института за литература, Том 4, (Българска академия на науките), 1956, стр. 126.
18. Известия на Института за литература, Том 4, Институт за литература (Българска академия на науките) 1956, стр. 124.