Education
He studied in Moscow, graduated from a high school in Braşov and then pursued a medical degree in Vienna.
He studied in Moscow, graduated from a high school in Braşov and then pursued a medical degree in Vienna.
After 1811 he was a merchant in Odessa. He initially participated in the Greek revolutionary movement, but later devoted himself to the Bulgarian Renaissance. He gathered Bulgarian folk songs.
In his will he left a large amount of money for building the Aprilovska High School in Gabrovo.
This was to be the first Bulgarian secular school using the Bell-Lancaster method. The emergence of this school gave a boost to Bulgarian education and soon other schools were opened all over the Bulgarian-populated regions of the Ottoman empire.
Aprilov Point on Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Vasil Aprilov.
