Milan Trajkov Stoilov (, ; 1881–1903) was a socialist revolutionary from the region of Macedonia. According to Macedonian historians, he was a Macedonian activist. However according to Bulgarian historians, he is regarded as a Bulgarian revolutionary.Коста Църнушанов, Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него. Университетско изд-во "Св. Климент Охридски", 1992, стр. 59; 61.Танчев, Иван. Македонският компонент при формирането на българската интелигенция с европейско образование (1878 – 1912). Македонски преглед XXIV (3). 2001. с. 59.According to Russian researcher Dmitri Labauri, both Bulgarian and Macedonian historians have created two different views on the early 20th century Slavic Macedonian student emigration in Russia, to which Stoilov belonged. Bulgarian historians mainly emphasize the activities of the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Circle, while Macedonian historians focus on the Slavic-Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society. For more see: Мемуары Христо Шалдева как источник по истории болгарских студенческих объединений в России в начале XX в. (Уральский государственный университет, Екатеринбург) в Россия - Болгария: векторы взаимопонимания. XVIII-XXI вв. Российско-болгарские научные дискуссии. Ритта Петровна Гришина (отв. редактор); Институт славяноведения РАН, Москва 2010, стр. 166-167
Biography Born in Kilkis, then in the Ottoman Empire, Stoilov graduated from the town's Bulgarian primary school and junior high school in 1892 and in 1895, respectively.Блаже Ристовски, Наце Д. Димов: 1876-1916, Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, 1973, стр. 16. In 1902, he graduated from the Bulgarian Theological Seminary in Constantinople.Istorija: spisanie na Sojuzot na društvata na istoričarite na SR Makedonija, Sojuz na društvata na istoričarite na Republike Makedonija, 1975, str. 69. That year, he began his studies at the Saint Petersburg Military Medical Academy. In Saint Petersburg, he participated in the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Circle, which was an offshoot of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.Ристовский, Блаже. Димитрий Чуповский и македонское национальное сознание, ОАО Издательство „Радуга“, Москва, 1999, с. 47.Те носели името „Таен македоно - одрински кръжок“ в дадения град и били в пряка връзка със Софийския върховен комитет, от когото приемали директиви, а сами му докладвали за своята дейност. For more see: Коста Църнушанов, Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него. Университетско изд-во "Св. Климент Охридски", 1992, стр. 53. Stoilov was a member of the Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society and served as its secretary. He was involved in the third official act of the Society, which included documenting minutes of its 29 December 1902 session.The minutes contain the ethnic borders of Macedonia, a thank-you to the Slavonic Charitable Society for providing its salon as meeting space, and a decision that a book be written with words in Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Russian. The latter initiative was to "show to the Russian public that Macedonian was no closer to Bulgarian or Serbian than to the Russian language." For more see:
In 1903, he left Russia to join the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottomans. In July, he arrived in Sofia and presented himself as a volunteer at the Overseas Representation of the IMARO, from where he was assigned to a detachment going to Ottoman Macedonia under Nikola Dechev.Манол Пандевски, Македонија на Балканот: XIV-XX историски координати, Мисла, 1990, , стр. 265. Stoilov headed a medical squad. He was killed in a fighting in Orizari, near Kočani, on 5 September 1903. According to other reports, he was heavily wounded and captured by the Turks and died in prison in Kočani in 1904.Исторически преглед, Том 45 Сътрудници Българско историческо дружество, Институт за история (Българска академия на науките), 1989, стр. 77. As a socialist-internationalist, he claimеd that he was not going to die for a certain nation or as a patriot, but as a revolutionary fighting for the good of humanity.Известия на Института за литература, Том 4, (Българска академия на науките), 1956, стр. 121.
Stoilov also authored "The Kilkis Vampire" ("Кукушкият вампир"), a didactic novel written in Bulgarian.В кукушката библиотека се намираше в ръкопис дидактическата повест „Кукушкият вампир“, написана и илюстрирана от загиналия през 1903 г. революционер - интернационалист Милан Стоилов. Книгата бичуваше пиянството и прекомерната употреба на мастика. For more see: Известия на Института за литература, Том 4, (Българска академия на науките), 1956, стр. 126.Известия на Института за литература, Том 4, Институт за литература (Българска академия на науките) 1956, стр. 124.
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