Revolutionary Andrey Hristov

Andrey Georgiev Hristov was a Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary, known as an active participant in the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO). He was born on 6 December 1866 in Veles, part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1893 he completed his higher education in chemistry at Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia.

Hristov worked as a teacher in various towns, including Veles, Ohrid, Krushevo, Stanimaka and others. In 1902, in connection with events surrounding the Vinitsa affair, he was arrested, subjected to brutal torture and confined in Bitola Prison. In 1901 he was a member of IMARO's Ohrid district committee, the following year of the Krushevo committee, and from 1904 of the Veles committee.

Hristov emerged as one of the leaders of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in Krushevo. In 1905 he was offered a teaching position in Velmey, but the authorities did not allow him to take it up. He became chairman of the Veles District Revolutionary Committee. In 1906 he was arrested again and sentenced to four years in prison by the Skopje court.