Revolutionary Petar Mishaykov

Petar Dimitrov Mishaykov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, an activist of the Bulgarian national liberation movement and a politician in post-Liberation Bulgaria.

He was born in Bitola, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and came from the large Mishaykov family. In 1867, he joined the Second Bulgarian Legion in Belgrade, Serbia.

After the legion was disbanded in 1868, he settled in Turnu Măgurele, where he and his brother ran an inn. Mishaykov chaired the Bulgarian revolutionary committee in the town. He attended the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee on 12 August 1875. He was also active in preparing the April Uprising and supported the detachments of Hristo Botev and Tanyo Stoyanov.

As an assistant to Panayot Hitov, he recruited volunteers for the Serbo-Turkish War of 1876.

After Bulgaria's Liberation in 1878, he lived in Varna, where he was among the leading figures of the Liberal Party. Mishaykov was a deputy in the Fourth Ordinary National Assembly and a supporter of Tsar Boris III's policies. He was buried in Sofia.