Levski Executed: Bulgaria's Revolutionary Martyr Hanged
Vasil Levski carried cyanide in a ring. He'd organized hundreds of radical committees across Bulgaria, but when Ottoman authorities caught him in 1873, he couldn't reach it in time. They hanged him near Sofia on February 19th. He was 35. The Ottomans buried him in an unmarked grave so it wouldn't become a shrine. It worked — nobody knows where his body is. Bulgaria calls him their Apostle of Freedom anyway.
February 18, 1873
153 years ago
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