Background
Krastyo Asenov was born in 1877 in Sliven.
Krastyo Asenov was born in 1877 in Sliven.
He graduated from the Bulgarian Men"s High School of Varna and later from the Sofia University.
He took part in the liberation struggles of the Macedonians at the beginning of the 20th Century. Afterwards Asenov worked as a Bulgarian Exarchate teacher in Macedonia. Under the influence of Gotse Delchev, he joined the IMARO and the struggle for the liberation of Macedonia and Odrin from the Turkish yoke.
He was one of the organizers and took an active role in the Mission Stone Affair.
Asenov"s cousins, Dimitar Asenov and Ivan Asenov were freedom fighters in the revolutionary band of the voyvoda Toma Davidov. During 1902, Asenov"s revolutionary activity was concentrated on the right coast of the Struma River.
During the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising he was a voyvoda of the Kilkis cheta and fought against the Ottomans in the area of the Paiak Mountain. In the village of Kornishor, there was a merger between the Kilkis band of Krastyo Asenov, and the Enizhe-Vardar bands of Apostol Petkov and Ivan Karasuliyata.
Here the flag of the uprising was sanctified before 250 Macedonian freedom fighters.
On June 6, he fought a battle against Turkish soldiers near the Ardzhan Lake, in which Milan Delchev was killed. On June 16, Asenov fought a battle near the village of Postol. However, he was killed only several days after the wedding by his superstitious comrades, dissatisfied with his decision to marry.
Later, they were sentenced to death by the IMARO revolutionary-court.