Atanas Razdolov

Atanas Ivanov Razdolov (Macedonian and Bulgarian: Атанас Иванов Раздолов; 1872–1931) was a socialist and anarchist revolutionary and writer from the region of Macedonia.

[1] Born in Berovo, Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia), as a young man, he left his hometown and settled in Kyustendil, Bulgaria.

[6] After General Ivan Tsonchev took control over the Supreme Committee, he joined the extreme left faction of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

[16] Petar Karchev wrote about Razdolov that a poetry could not be sought in his poems, but there was hidden the deep bitterness of a honest but failed revolutionary.

[18] Per Dimo Kazasov, he was a nondescript and poorly dressed man who made a living by writing illiterate and thoughtless patriotic poems.

[19] According to assessments of his personality, he was a Bulgarian revolutionary[20] who later switched to far left-wing political positions and accepted the ideas of Macedonism after the Balkan Wars.