He studied in the Plovdiv Gymnasium, where he was influenced by the representative of the Geneve group, Dimo Nikolov, to accept the socialist ideas.

From February 1901 to 1902, he was a leader of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC) border point in Chepelare, where he was supported by the local teacher Tota Doncheva.

According to Hristo Karamandzhukov: He was healthy and physically tough and possessed extraordinary spiritual qualities – a strong mind, intelligence, energy and courage.

But he was an extreme and vivid socialist, he hid in him deep hatred toward contemporary society and statehood and believed, that the Marxist theories could be applied on the grounds on which the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement was based and to the conditions of the region of the Middle Rhodopes.

In 1904 he married Tota Doncheva and in the beginning of 1905 he went with her to Skopje, where they formed a socialist group under the mask of their tailoring activity.