Revolutionary Nikola Astardzhiev

Nikola Moynov Astardzhiev was a Bulgarian national revolutionary, volunteer soldier and veteran of the liberation struggle, printer and folklorist.

He was born in Lovech in 1850. He learned printing at the Turkish school in Ruse and then emigrated to Romania, working in Lyuben Karavelov's printing house. In 1873 he became a printer for Hristo G. Danov and Yanko S. Kovachev in Vienna. He then returned to Romania and worked in Hristo Botev's printing house in Bucharest. He took an active part in the April Uprising of 1876 as a member of Botev's detachment. He was captured and imprisoned in Sofia but released in 1877.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 he enlisted in the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps and fought at Stara Zagora and Shipka Peak.

After the Liberation he worked as a typesetter in Plovdiv and at the State Printing House in Sofia.