Vasil Ivanov Kunchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria.
Born in the Sub-Balkan town of Karlovo.
At the age of twenty four he took the vows of a deacon. In 1862 he fled to Serbia and enlisted as a volunteer in the Bulgarian legion raised by Rakovski. Between 1862 and 1868 Levski participated in almost all Bulgarian armed assaults against the Ottoman Empire. The revolutionary theory which took form in Vasil Levski's mind towards the end of the 60s, turned out to be a leap forward for the Bulgarian liberation movement. Levski also determined the future form of government in liberated Bulgaria - a democratic republic, standing on the principles of the Human and Citizen Rights Charter of the Great French Revolution. In 1869 Levski addressed himself to the task of setting up local committees. Unfortunately, he himself fell in the hands of the Turkish authorities who put him on trial and sentenced him to death by hanging. Levski was sent to the gallows in Sofia in February 1873. The death of Vasil Levski - a generally recognized leader of the national revolutionary movement, caused temporary crisis.
Born in the Sub-Balkan town of Karlovo.
At the age of twenty four he took the vows of a deacon. In 1862 he fled to Serbia and enlisted as a volunteer in the Bulgarian legion raised by Rakovski. Between 1862 and 1868 Levski participated in almost all Bulgarian armed assaults against the Ottoman Empire. The revolutionary theory which took form in Vasil Levski's mind towards the end of the 60s, turned out to be a leap forward for the Bulgarian liberation movement. Levski also determined the future form of government in liberated Bulgaria - a democratic republic, standing on the principles of the Human and Citizen Rights Charter of the Great French Revolution. In 1869 Levski addressed himself to the task of setting up local committees. Unfortunately, he himself fell in the hands of the Turkish authorities who put him on trial and sentenced him to death by hanging. Levski was sent to the gallows in Sofia in February 1873. The death of Vasil Levski - a generally recognized leader of the national revolutionary movement, caused temporary crisis.