Mihail Shkartov

Mihail Shkartov (1 February 1883 in Kavadarci – 25 June 1936 in Sofia) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, voivode of Veles and a member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an Ethnic Macedonian in North Macedonia.

Biography

Mihail Shkartov was born in Kavadarci in 1884. He graduated from the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki. He taught in the village of Dolni Poroy, today in Sintiki, Demirhisar and in Kavadarci. During his time as a teacher in Kavadarci he was elected a member of the District Revolutionary Committee of TMORO in 1904. In the same year he became illegal and acted as a komitadji under the leadership of Dobri Daskalov, and later in the band of Jane Sandanski. In 1920 he was elected head of the Thessaloniki Revolutionary District, and was elected district voivoda. In 1931, on the orders of Vancho Mihailov and a promise that his life would be spared, he withdrew from revolutionary activity. He died in Sofia, Bulgaria 1936.