Revolutionary Evstatiy Shkornov

Evstatiy Shkornov, known as Deacon Evstatiy or the Black Voivode, was a Bulgarian revolutionary who distinguished himself as a voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation in the Resen district.

Shkornov was born in 1873 in the large village of Nestram in the Kostur district, now in Greece. After graduating from the Bulgarian Catholic Seminary in Thessaloniki, he became a deacon at the Bulgarian church in Bucharest. In 1903 he joined the Macedonian liberation movement under Boris Sarafov's leadership.

Deacon Evstatiy played an active part in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising and remained in Macedonia after its suppression. In 1906–1907 he served as district voivode in Resen and participated in the First Balkan War as voivode of a partisan detachment of the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps.

During the First World War, Evstatiy served on the staff of the 11th Macedonian Division. He subsequently participated in the unification congress of the Macedonian Federative Organisation and the Union of Macedonian Emigrant Organisations in January 1923.

Evstatiy Shkornov died in 1935 in Sofia.