Revolutionary Todor Pirinchilev

Todor Stoyanov Pirinchilev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and member of Botev's detachment.

He was born in 1837 in Nevrokop, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He later emigrated to Romania and settled in Giurgiu, joining the revolutionary émigrés and Hristo Botev's circle. In 1875 he went to Bosnia and volunteered in the Serbian uprising. He subsequently worked as a stoker at a mill near Turnu Măgurele.

He joined Hristo Botev's detachment after the outbreak of the April Uprising and boarded the steamship Radetzky on 16 May. He took charge of its engine room and fought at Milin Kamak, Veslets and Okolchitsa. After the detachment's defeat he escaped with Atanas Sveshtarov, but was captured in the Rhodope Mountains and imprisoned in Nevrokop and Serres, where he was brutally tortured. He was amnestied in 1876 and went to Odesa, Russia.

At the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War he volunteered for the Russian army and served in the 36th Oryol Infantry Regiment, which fought at Shipka.

After 1878 he settled in Lița, Romania. In 1900, during the Bulgarian-Romanian conflict over the murder of Ștefan Mihăileanu, he was arrested, spent a year in prison and was expelled from Romania to Bulgaria. He died in Sofia and later moved to Oryahovo.