За материалното осигуряване на четническата акция от 1868 година
The Material Provision of the Rebel Campaign of 1868

Summary/Abstract: The problem of the material supplying of the chetnik campaign in 1868 are examined in the article. The programme documents of the rebel movement in 1867–1868 prove that it was planned on a broad basis with the formation of several detachments that after passing in the Bulgarian lands should raise the rebellion for Bulgarian freedom. Thais supposed good preparations in advance, expressed above all in obtaining money for the purchase of arms.The centre of the preparations was Romania where emerged several centres that took an active part in the material preparation of the detachments: Giurgiu, Bucharest, Ploesti and Braila. The author establishes also several other Romanian towns with their representatives in the material supplying of the future chetniks: Turnu-Magurele, Slatina and Alexandria. About 25 persons have been identified who ensured funds for the rebels or provided some other assistance. This two emigre political organizations in Romania – the Clandestine Bulgarian Central Committee and the Benevolent Society – as organizations did not support the revolutionary initiative of the “young” Bulgarian emigration but some of their activists and followers committed themselves to the organizational and material preparation of the chetniks in 1868. Official Russia did not lend support (in funds and arms) despite some initiatives of the Bulgarian emigration in Odessa to receive Russian weapons for the Bulgarians in those years. On the basis of documentary and memoir material and literature is proved the purely Bulgarian character of the chetnik campaign in 1868. The Bulgarian armed rising in 1868 relied on its own forces and the capacity of the Bulgarian people and mobilized its own, internal sources for securing funds.

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