Kosta Panica

Kosta Panica from 1890

Together for the association: Captain Panica, Sachari Stojanow and Dimitar Rizoff

Konstantin Atanasow Panica (common transcription: Konstantin Atanasov Panitsa; Bulgarian Константин Атанасов Паница ; born March 12, 1857 in Veliko Tarnovo ; † June 26, 1890 in Sofia ), known by his nickname Kosta Panica (Bulgarian Конста Коловка) was a fighter of Bulgarian freedom and military.

Kosta Panica took part in the April uprising and the Serbian-Turkish War in 1876 . In the same year he also entered the Odessa Military Infantry School . After the beginning of the Russo-Turkish War from 1877 to 1878 Kosta Panica dropped out of the military school and went to war as a volunteer in the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps. After the liberation of Bulgaria , he served for a short time in the East Rumelian militias and took part in the Kresna-Raslog uprising , which was directed against the partition of Bulgaria after the Berlin Congress . He then returned to Russia , where he graduated from the Military Academy and Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University.

After his return to the newly created Principality of Bulgaria , Panica joined the struggle of the Bulgarians from Macedonia and Eastern Rumelia for its liberation. In 1885 Panica became chairman of the Bulgarian Macedonian Revolutionary Central Committee "Iskra" and a member of the Bulgarian Secret Revolutionary Central Committee (BGRZK).

As a member of the BGRZK, he took part in the preparation and implementation of the unification of the Principality of Bulgaria with the Ottoman Province of Eastern Rumelia on September 6, 1885. In the following Serbian-Bulgarian war he took part in the rank of major . Under his leadership, the proposed Bulgarian army in the battle of slivnitsa the Serb forces at Ropot and Komschtiza .

After the deposition of the Bulgarian Prince Alexander I Battenberg , who was supported by Panica, Panica supported the counter-coup and the subsequent government of Stefan Stambolow . However, when Stambolow embarked on a moderate policy towards Macedonia, Panica turned away from him and tried together with other Macedonian Bulgarians to murder him several times. In one of these attempts, he was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death and in Sofia on June 26, 1890 executed .

literature

• Simeon Radew : The builders / creators of modern Bulgaria. Volume 2 (1911) and Volume 3 (2008) (bulg. Строителите на съвременна България . Том 2, Том 3)
• Виктор Иванович Косик: Время разрыва политика России в болгарском вопросе 1886–1894 гг. P. 58.
• Dontscho Daskalow: Политическите убийства в новата история на България.
• Дойно Христосков Дойнов: Комитетите "Единство".
• Zheko Popov, Димитър Петков: Burnii͡a͡t zhivot na Dimitŭr Petkov.
• RJ Crampton: Bulgaria. Pp. 120-130.
• RJ Crampton: A concise history of Bulgaria. Pp. 108-111.
• Duncan M. Perry: Stefan Stambolov and the Emergence of Modern Bulgaria, 1870–1895. Pp. 74, pp. 161-174.
• Duncan M. Perry: The politics of terror: the Macedonian liberation movements, 1893–1903. Duke University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8223-0813-4 , p. 34.
• Claudia Weber : In Search of the Nation: Culture of Remembrance in Bulgaria from 1878–1944. LIT publishing house. Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-7736-1 , p. 337.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ vestnikataka.com

Web links

• The Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1885 ( Memento of March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• The trial of Major Kosta Panica in 1890 (bulg.)
• The trial of Major Kosta Panica in 1890 (Bulgarian) ( Memento of September 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Naum Tyufektchiev - the most famous Bulgarian terrorist (Bulgar.)
• The judgment of Major Kosta Panica (bulg.)
• "'150 years since the birth of Konstantin Panica (bulg.)"
• The union of Eastern Rumelines with the Principality of Bulgaria (bulg.)
• The assassination of Stambolow (bulg.) Excerpt from the book The 50 Greatest Assassinations in Bulgarian History (bulg. 50-те най-големи атентата в българската история) by Krum Blagov
• Between Liberal Doctrine and Gross Political Practice (bulg.)