Revolutionary Konstantin Kondov

Konstantin Nikolov Kondov, also known as Atanas Petrov and Ivan Velikov Stoykov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO). He was born in 1874 in the town of Prilep, then part of the Ottoman Empire.

His family moved to Sofia in 1881 after the liberation of the Principality of Bulgaria. Kondov graduated from the Military School in Sofia in 1894 and worked as a teacher in Dupnitsa, after which he went abroad to study law in Odesa, Russia. On returning to Bulgaria, he worked as a teacher in Gabrovo and Yambol.

In 1901 Konstantin Kondov led a detachment of the Supreme Committee and operated in the Western Rhodope Mountains and Rila. He participated in various uprisings and military operations, including the Gorna Dzhumaya Uprising in 1902.

In 1903, during the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, Kondov offered his skills to IMARO and participated with his detachment in the Veles and Skopje districts. He was captured by the Turkish authorities but was released following the intervention of the Russian consul in Skopje.

After the uprising he worked as a teacher in Gabrovo, where in 1904 he published the historical essay The Macedonian's Struggle. After 1908 he joined the Ministry of the Interior.

During the First Balkan War in 1912, Kondov volunteered for the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps and served as commander of the 4th Company of the 9th Veles Battalion. He continued serving during the First World War, becoming a company commander in the Eleventh Macedonian Infantry Division.