Revolutionary Stoyan Donski

Stoyan Angelov, known as Donski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and voivode of the Macedonian Committee and the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO).

He was born in 1869 in the village of Bitusha in the Bitola district, now located in Parorio, Greece. In 1894 he settled in Bulgaria. In 1895 he joined the Macedonian Committee's armed detachment campaign.

Donski was captured in battle and sentenced to 101 years of exile in Diyarbakır. After the amnesty he returned to Macedonia and settled in the village of Smilevo. There he became a fighter under Nikola Geroyski.

In 1901 he established contact with the Serbian officer and activist in Serbian propaganda in Macedonia, Živojin Rafailović, and became voivode of a detachment organised and armed by Belgrade. However, immediately upon arriving in Macedonia, Donski turned to IMARO, swore an oath before Georgi Pophristov and became Bitola district voivode. He led a detachment in the Bitola and Resen districts but was replaced by Slaveyko Arsov in early 1902.

Donski participated in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising and was among Smilevo's defenders. In 1904 the detachments of Donski, Slaveyko Arsov and Atanas Babata were betrayed by supporters of the Serbian cause and surrounded near the village of Gorno Gyugyantse in the Sveti Nikole district. In a six-hour battle, the voivodes Donski and Arsov died with twenty fighters, including Iliya Vidinov. The remaining fighters, led by Atanas Babata, managed to break through the cordon.