Voivode Ivan Bogatinov

Ivan Bogatinov, also known as Bogatin Voivode, was a Bulgarian hajduk of the second half of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1814 in the village of Laki, then part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1845, he began his activities as a hajduk and led his detachment in the Marvashko region. In 1861, he was arrested and sentenced in Constantinople, but managed to escape from prison two years later. He took refuge in the Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon on Mount Athos, where he met the veteran hajduk Vangel Yapov, with whom he subsequently took part in hajduk activities until 1879. Bogatin Voivode died in Laki in 1891.