Racho Petrov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Racho Petrov

Bulgarian general

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1861

Place of Birth: Shumen, Shumen Province, Bulgaria

Date of Death: 22-Jan-1942

Profession: politician, military officer

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Racho Petrov

  • Racho Petrov Stoyanov (Bulgarian: ???? ?????? ???????) (3 March 1861 – 22 January 1942) was a leading Bulgarian general and politician. Petrov was born in Shumen.
  • A talented soldier, he was appointed Chief of General Staff at the age of 24 and was Minister of Defence at 27.
  • His stature was increased by the leading role he took in suppressing an army mutiny in 1887.
  • He married Sultana Pantaleeva Minchovich in 1887, with whom he had 3 children.
  • After an unhappy marriage, they divorced in 1919.Both Petrov and his wife were personally close to Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and in 1891 was promoted by Ferdinand to the rank of colonel, the first officer to hold that rank in Bulgaria.
  • Petrov also attended Ferdinand's wedding to Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma in Italy in 1893.
  • Ferdinand's decision in 1894 to place Petrov in charge of the army completely, and thus outside the command of Prime Minister Stefan Stambolov, precipitated the resignation of the latter.As a politician, he twice served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, initially as the non-party head of an interim administration in 1901, the only task of which was to organize the next election.
  • He returned as Prime Minister for a longer period from 1903–1906, having been appointed for fear of war after a Bulgarian insurrection in Ottoman Macedonia.
  • His government was particularly concerned with military matters and oversaw an armament program and extensive modernization of the Bulgarian army.During the Second Balkan War Petrov, by then a Lieutenant General, took command of the 3rd Army, leading it at the Battle of Bregalnica, a Serbian victory.During the First World War he served as head of the newly established Macedonian Military Inspection Oblast from December 1915 until October 1916.

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