Revolutionary Hristo Nastev

Hristo Nastev, also known as Zyulfikar or Hr. Anchev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and activist in the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO).

He was born in 1876 in the town of Shtip, Macedonia. He graduated from the Bulgarian Teacher Training School in Skopje in 1898 and joined IMARO. In 1900 he met Gotse Delchev and Stoyan Lazov during their tour of the Adrianople region. He maintained contact with other revolutionaries and organised revolutionary committees in various settlements.

In 1902 he returned to Macedonia as an underground activist and became secretary of Captain Toma Davidov's detachment, which operated in the Bitola and Ohrid districts. In 1903 he was a delegate to the Bitola Revolutionary District's Smilevo Congress and actively participated in the Ilinden Uprising, operating with a detachment in the Lerin district.

After the uprising, in 1904, he headed IMARO's Kyustendil border post. Following the amnesty for participants in the uprising, he returned to his native town but was arrested and sentenced to prison. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 he was released and entered political life as a delegate to the Constituent Congress of Shtip.

During the First Balkan War he volunteered for the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps. After the wars he settled in Bulgaria, where he worked as a clerk and became involved in the Ilinden Organisation's activities.

He died on 20 June 1962 in Varna. Hristo Nastev is known as one of the leading revolutionaries of the Macedonian-Adrianople liberation movement and an active participant in the struggle for the Bulgarian people's freedom and independence.