Georgi Vazov

He was one of the main organizers of the 1886 Bulgarian coup d'état, aimed at the dethronement of Prince Alexander Battenberg.

During the First Balkan War, he commanded the Eastern Sector during the Siege of Adrianople, where the offensive that led to the capture of the city took place.

His father Mincho Vazov is a major merchant and entrepreneur, owner of some of the largest shops in the center of Sopot, trading in Wallachia.

[2] In 1866, the eldest brother of the Ivan family took young Georgi to the "mutual school" in Klisura with teacher Nacho Trufchev.

After the suppression of the uprising in the autumn of the same year, Mincho Vazov decided to send his son Georgi to Oltenitza, Romania, to his brother Kiril.

In the spring of 1878, under the leadership of the governor of Svishtov, Naiden Gerov, a competition was held, thanks to which 10 boys had the opportunity to study at the Odessa Junker School in Russia.

Upon his arrival in Varna, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, which equated him with the graduation of the second class of the Vasil Levski National Military University in Sofia.

Vazov's diligence and intelligence did not go unnoticed by the district 's governor-general, Aleko Bogoridi, and he was appointed his third adjutant.

As early as 1881, Vazov wrote his first monograph "On Military Gymnastics in Schools and Society", which was published in Sofia during his studies in Russia.

He joined the avant-garde detachment of Major Petko Stoyanov and took part in the Battle of Tsaribrod on November 12.

After the thawing of Bulgarian-Russian relations in the late 90s, in 1898 Georgi Vazov was returned to service in the Bulgarian Army.

[1] At the beginning of the First Balkan War in the autumn of 1912, Georgi Vazov was mobilized and appointed chief of military communications and transport.

On March 12, 1913, at 8:30 a.m., Major General Georgi Vazov, commander of the Bulgarian troops besieging Edirne in the eastern sector, issued his remarkable order No.

Point 6 of it has remained in history, it reads: It must be remembered that on this night it is necessary to decide the fate of the Edirne fortress.

On March 15, 1915, 115 members of the People's Party, including General Vazov, sent a letter requesting that Bulgaria not interfere in the First World War.