Revolutionary Panayot Baychev

Panayot Baychev, or Panayot Boychev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and Kumanovo voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO). He was born in 1879 in Vidin and in the spring of 1903 became an IMARO voivode in the Shtip district.

In April 1903, following a decision of IMARO's January congress, a large quantity of weapons was stockpiled in the Radomir district. Five detachments were formed, with voivodes including Hristo Chernopeev, Petar Samardzhiev, Nikola Zhekov and Panayot Boychev, together with a technical detachment responsible for laying mines. Chernopeev was commander-in-chief of all the detachments, including Panayot Boychev's.

In the summer of 1903, during the Ilinden Uprising, Boychev served in Hristo Chernopeev's force and fought in the Kochani district. After the uprising, in 1904 – 1905, he became a voivode in the Kumanovo district and was a delegate to the Skopje Revolutionary District's congress in January 1905. The conflict between the voivodes Konstantin Nunkov and Panayot Boychev contributed to the region's Serbianisation.

During the First Balkan War in 1912, Panayot Boychev volunteered for the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps and participated in the liberation of Kavala. He also liberated the small town of Pravishta and became its military commandant. According to the Carnegie Inquiry, he and his fighters committed no rapes and even helped two women attacked by Greeks.