Revolutionary Todor Lazarov

Todor Lazarov Hadzhidimitriev, known by the pseudonyms Sarasakaliyata, Sarasakalli Mehmed and Sarachizmeli, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the Foreign Representation of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation.

He was born in 1869 in Štip, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He came from the influential Hadzhidimitriev family, and his brother Arso Lazarov was a well-known public figure. He was educated at the SS Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Boys' High School in Thessaloniki and became a teacher in his home town. He later worked in trade.

Todor Lazarov Hadzhidimitriev joined IMARO, taking the oath before Dame Gruev. He was active in revolutionary work in Štip and chaired the local revolutionary committee. In 1896 he was arrested following a conflict with a pro-Serbian activist and sentenced to imprisonment. He was arrested again in connection with the Vinica Affair.

In 1899 he was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, served in the prisons of Skopje and Priština. He participated in IMARO's Thessaloniki Congress in 1903. In 1905 he was arrested and exiled to Tarabulus al-Sham.

After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 he was released and helped establish the Union of Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs. In 1910 he was elected to the Foreign Representation.

Suffering from tuberculosis, Todor Lazarov Hadzhidimitriev took his own life on hearing that the Balkan War had been declared.