His brother Mihail became a member of the revolutionary organization IMARO at the time when Dame Gruev and Gotse Delchev worked as teachers in Štip.

With Marko Lerinski and Gotse Delchev, he toured the regions of Kastoria, Edessa, Florina and Bitola.

At the Congress of Smilevo, he was a delegate of the Resen revolutionary region, together with Aleksandar Panayotov, Velyan Iliev and Nikola Kokarev.

Before the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, Toma Nikolov and Donka Ushlinova joined the band of Slaveyko Arsov.

On June 9, 1904, they were betrayed by local Serbomans near the village of Gorno Gyugyantsi, Kratovo region, and were surrounded by Turkish military.