Revolutionary Mito Tsvetkov

Mito Tsvetkov, known by the nicknames Bakalov and Bakalbashiyski, was a Bulgarian national revolutionary born around 1844 in Vratsa. He played a significant role in the national revolutionary movement and took an active part in preparing the April Uprising.

The Vratsa Local Revolutionary Committee was founded in his home on 10 July 1872. He was an active committee member and an associate of Vasil Levski. He received authorisation from Levski and helped establish the clandestine Bechet–Oryahovo route.

In the autumn of 1875, Mito Tsvetkov became involved in preparations for the April Uprising in the Third Revolutionary District of Vratsa. According to Zahari Stoyanov's testimony, he was a merchant who obtained tallow on credit from a Turk and went to Wallachia to sell it; instead, he pledged the tallow to the Bulgarian revolutionary émigrés and used the proceeds to buy rifles for Hristo Botev's detachment.

After the uprising broke out, Tsvetkov joined Hristo Botev's detachment. He separated from it after the battle at Milin Kamak and was captured in the Berkovitsa region a few days later. He was sentenced in Vidin and remained in the town's prison until the Liberation.

After liberation from Ottoman rule, the Bulgarian Mladen Skachokov sued Mito Tsvetkov over the unpaid tallow with which he had purchased weapons, and his house was seized. He died in poverty in Vratsa in 1881.