[2] She married Apostol Iliev [bg] (taking the name "Apostolova") and together with him and Donka Ushlinova, she assassinated the local bey Djelep Redjo Sulyov.

Apostolova's mother Petrana Dimova was arrested, convicted and lay in prison until the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, when she was released and died shortly afterwards.

[1] After the uprising, Apostolova and Iliev moved to the independent Kingdom of Bulgaria and settled in Varna, where they had four children and lived in poverty.

[1][6] The chairman of the Ilinden Society, Hristo Nastev [bg], spoke at her funeral at the Dormition of the Mother of God Cathedral.

[1] During the Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia, the inhabitants of Lera founded the Donka and Srebra Community Centre, named after the two heroines of the village.