crossing the
Olt River at
Slatina, on May 10, 1821. The four men standing at the front of the barge are, from the left: Macedonski,
Tudor Vladimirescu, Mihai Cioranu, and
Hadži-Prodan. Lithograph by Carol Isler Dimitrie was born in
Ottoman Macedonia, as the son of Stoyan Mincho (Stogiannis Mintsos), a local chieftain. After the Russo-Turkish wars in the late 18th century the family of Mincho emigrated beyond the
Danube. Dimitrie joined the Russian army and became a military officer. He adopted the surname "Macedonski", which referred to his home place. According to the Romanian historian
Radu Florescu Dimitrie was of
Bulgarian origin. Per Romanian historian Constantin Velichi he acted as a Bulgarian in the period 1806-1821, but after 1840 he was already
Romanianized. Macedonski volunteered in the
Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812). Afterwards, he was awarded for his bravery and gained the rank of lieutenant. Later he held different administrative positions in Wallachia and Moldavia. Taking part in the
Wallachian uprising of 1821, alongside fellow Serbian commander
Hadži-Prodan, he was appointed
Tudor Vladimirescu's lieutenant by
boyar allies of the revolutionaries, on January 15. Sympathetic to the
Philikí Etaireía and suspicious of Vladimirescu's level of commitment to the cause, Macedonski, together with
Giorgakis Olympios and
Iannis Pharmakis, deposed and arrested the rebel leader. Macedonski was also involved in revolutionary agitation in 1840 Wallachia as a member of a
radical conspiracy led by
Mitică Filipescu and
Nicolae Bălcescu. On April 9, 1841, he was sentenced to eight years in prison, and held at the
Snagov Monastery, where he fell ill with
dropsy. In early 1843 he was transferred to the Plumbuita Monastery near
Bucharest for medical care, but he died on January 10. He was the grandfather of
Romanian poet
Alexandru Macedonski. == References ==