Georgi Mamarchev ( bg, Георги Мамарчев; 1786 – 16 July 1846) was a

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fighter against the Ottoman rule and a captain in the

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. Mamarchev was the uncle of the Bulgarian revolutionary

Georgi Sava Rakovski Georgi Stoykov Rakovski ( bg, Георги Стойков Раковски) (1821 – 9 October 1867), known also Georgi Sava Rakovski (), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (), was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, freemason, writer and an impo ...

. Due to the merits of Mamarchev and out of respect for his work, Rakovski took the name of his uncle. Mamarchev was the mastermind of the Bulgarian Conspiracy of 1835. He was not executed only because he was a Russian citizen, but he was exiled to the island of

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, where he died.

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1786 births 1846 deaths Bulgarian revolutionaries Military history of Bulgaria Russian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars {{Bulgaria-mil-bio-stub