Voivode Andrey Petrov

Dyado Andrey was born in 1861 in Malo Tsarsko in the Demir Hisar region, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He began studying with the local priest but soon became a hajduk. In 1885, he joined Kalesh Dimko's band and became an independent commander in 1887.

He then emigrated to Romania, where he worked and earned money, before returning home to support Duko Tasev's band. After another stay in Romania, he returned and joined IMARO. In 1900, he served under Mirche Atsev and later Yordan Piperkata.

In winter 1900, he joined Marko Lerinski's band in the Kastoria region. From 1901, he led his own band around Prilep. Early in 1903, he joined Parashkev Tsvetkov's band, which went to the Bitola region to prepare for the coming uprising.

In 1903, the twenty-man band reached Mogila. On the morning of 21 May, it was surrounded and fired upon. All its members, including Dyado Andrey, were killed.