Todoraki Peshov

Todoraki Peshov (5 April 1838, Zhelyava – 1892, Sofia) was a Bulgarian politician and merchant. After the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878 he became the first elected Mayor of Sofia, which was soon proclaimed capital of the re-established Bulgarian state.

Biography Todoraki Peshev was born on 5 April 1838 in the village of Zhelyava in Ottoman Bulgaria. He held the post of a second time between 10 May 1884 and 24 August 1885. During his second term was constructed part of the new water supply system with the inauguration of a reservoir in the then village of Boyana and the connecting pipeline to Sofia. He helped to raise money to erect the Monument to Vasil Levski.

Peshov died in 1892 in Sofia.