, Zahariy Stoyanov, and
Dimitar Rizov in
Plovdiv, 1885 Zahariy Stoyanov was born in the family of the
shepherd Stoyan Dalakchiev in the village of
Medven close to
Sliven. He attended the religious school (after 1860 mutual and class school) in his native village between 1856 and 1862 to later become a shepherd in İnceköy (modern
Topoli, Varna Province) and
Podvis, Burgas Province (1866–1870). While being apprenticed to
tailor in
Rousse he joined the Rousse revolutionary committee and later worked as a clerk for
Baron de Hirsch's railway in modern
Simeonovgrad in 1873. He took part in the
Stara Zagora Uprising of 1875 and was one of the "apostles" of the Plovdiv revolutionary district during the time of the April Uprising. After the uprising's suppression he was imprisoned in
Plovdiv and later forcibly sent to Medven. He then illegally went to newly liberated
Tarnovo in 1877. After the
Liberation of Bulgaria in the
Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 Stoyanov was a member of the Tarnovo Regional Court in 1880. In 1881 he was a secretary of the
Court of Appeal and a forensic examining magistrate in Rousse, and he was an employee of the Office of Justice of Eastern Rumelia in 1882–1885. Stoyanov headed the
Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee (BSCRC) which organized the Unification of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia in 1885. He lived in
Sofia since 1886, where he actively participated in the activities of the People's Liberal Party. A deputy to the
National Assembly of Bulgaria in 1886, he was an assistant chairman in 1887 and a
chairman of the Bulgarian Parliament in 1888–1889. Zahariy Stoyanov died in
Paris,
France on 2 September 1889. == Literary activity ==