Voivode Duko Tasev

Duko Tasev Chervenkov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, known as an activist of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Kichevo voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO).

He was born in 1858 in the village of Yudovo in the Kichevo district, then part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1878 he participated in the Kresna-Razlog Uprising in the detachment of the Russian officer Adam Kalmikov, after which he was captured and exiled to Diyarbakır for seven years.

In 1895 he participated in the Macedonian Committee's armed detachment campaign as a squad leader in Stoyo Kostov's detachment. From 1897 to 1900 he led IMARO's first detachment in the Kichevo district, working with the fighters Yordan Piperkata, Nikola Geroyski and Yanaki Yanev. The detachment's first operation in October 1897 was the elimination of the Turkish sipahi Moharem Bey, known as Remko, from Salp. In June 1900 the detachment killed the notorious Abduraman Bey from Debar at the locality of Lopushnik.

After these events he settled in Sofia, where he later died on 14 March 1942. In 1938 his memoirs were published by the Kichevo Charitable Brotherhood.