The Assumption (society)

Its main objectives were to provide material and non-material support for the education of the poor and especially women.

Among the prominent members of the organization were Vasilka Razmova, Cleo Samardzhieva, Atina Shahova, Poliksena Mosinova and Maria Parmakova.

In the autumn of 1900, the company joined the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and actively participated in the preparation of the Ilenden Uprising in Ohrid under the guidance of teacher Konstantina Boyadzhieva.

[1] Members of the merged organization including Poliksena Poppanova [bg] and Kostadina Rusinska helped found a hospital at the house used by Metody Patchev who had recently died fighting the Ottomans.

[1] The care of the wounded by the women revolutionaries of Ohrid was the subject of a large painting by Dancho Kal’chev in 1903.