The Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Circle was founded in St. Petersburg in 1900. Members of it were Bulgarian students in the Russian Empire. Its purpose, according to its founding protocol, was: "To support the Macedonian cause materially and morally and, according to its capabilities, to monitor its development." One of the founders of the circle was Krste Misirkov, who, when he moved to St. Petersburg in 1902, became its chairman.Записки за България и Руско-Българските отношения: бележки за събитията на деня (5 юли-30 август 1913 г.), Крсте Петков Мисирков, Редактор Цочо Билярски, Издателство „Анико“, 2011, ; стр. 14

The circle was in direct contacts with the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee in Bulgaria, to which it reported on its activities.Църнушанов, Коста. Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него. София, Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“, 1992. с. 53. Misirkov presented his motives for the creation of the circle to the chairman of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee in Sofia as follows: "It is known that there is no Bulgarian who is not interested in the situation and fate of that part of our fatherland, which to this day groans under the yoke of Turkey."Веселин Николов Трайков, Кръсте П. Мисирков и за българските работи в Македония или другия Кръсте Мисирков: опит за обективна оценка. Знание, 2000, , увод.

In the period 1902-1903, the circle contacted with the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.Елдъров С. Студентски македоно-одрински дружества в Западна Европа и Русия (1895-1903) // Исторически преглед. 1990. № 8. Subsequently, the circle grew into the Macedonian-Adrianople Student Society, with divisions in cities in Russia where Bulgarian students attended.Исторически преглед, Броеве 7–12, Българско историческо дружество, Институт за история (Българска Академия на наукитe) 1990, стр. 28-30. The club existed until 1906, when it merged with the All-Bulgarian Student Association, ceasing its independent activity.Мемуары Христо Шалдева как источник по истории болгарских студенческих объединений в России в начале XX в. Д.О. Лабаури (Уральский государственный университет, Екатеринбург).

See also Macedonian Question Secret society

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