Rayko Daskalov

Rayko Ivanov Daskalov
Black-and-white portrait of a mid-aged white man with round glasses, dark curly hair and a moustache
Born21 December [O.S. 9 December] 1886
Died23 August 1923(1923-08-23) (aged 36)
Occupationpolitician
SpouseNevena

Rayko Ivanov Daskalov (Bulgarian: Райко Иванов Даскалов) (21 December [O.S. 9 December] 1886 – 26 August 1923) was a Bulgarian interwar politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU). One of the chief leaders of the republican Vladaya Uprising organised by deserted Bulgarian Army troops in 1918 against the government, from 1919 to 1923 Daskalov was a prominent member of the BAPU governments which were in power in Bulgaria in the early post-World War I period.

A staunch opponent of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO), Daskalov survived an assassination attempt orchestrated by the organisation before he was assassinated in another IMRO attempt while residing in Prague, Czechoslovakia.