Revolutionary Hristo Parzhinov

Hristo Dimitrov Parzhinov was a Bulgarian revolutionary who participated in the April Uprising in 1876 with Tanyo Stoyanov's detachment.

He was born in 1847 in the town of Ohrid and was a cousin of Ivan Abrashev. His family nickname Parzhinovi came from an episode in which he and his grandfather were involved in a quarrel with a tax collector and threw him into a cauldron of wax to protect him from vampires. In his youth he emigrated to Romania, where he worked as a carriage driver before joining Tanyo Voyvoda's detachment.

On 21 May he died together with Yovcho Keyapenchev while crossing the forests between Kamenovo, Ravno and Syanov. Although he escaped after the detachment was defeated, he was captured on a guarded bridge and remained in prison with Totyo Kolimechkata. He was released under the amnesty and left for Romania.

In 1877 the Druzhba Bulgarian Charitable Society in Brăila sent him to the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps' camp, and he participated in the Russo-Turkish War. For his bravery in the defence of Shipka, he received the soldiers' Order of Saint George, Fourth Class.

After the Liberation he settled in Sofia, where he worked as a carriage driver. In 1905 he became a partner in a bakery, and around 1915 he became the owner of a dairy in Stolnik. He died in 1927.

In 1880 he married Stefana, and they had three children: Dimitar, Aleksandar and Maria. Aleksandar became an officer and participated in the wars, dying on the Macedonian Front in 1917. Dimitar graduated in medicine in Vienna.

In 1923 he was declared an honorary citizen of Gabrovo.