Konstantin Vladov Muraviev (5 March 1893, Pazardzhik

Pazardzhik

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 – 31 January 1965) was a leading member of the Agrarian People's Union

Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union

Bulgarian Agrarian National Union also tiranslated to English as Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union is a political party devoted to representing the causes of the Bulgarian peasantry. It was most powerful between 1900 and 1923. In practice, it was an agrarian movement...

 who briefly served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria near the end of Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n involvement in the Second World War. Muraviev was educated at Robert College

Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul , is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutköy district to the east, and...

 of Istanbul

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, just like Ivan Evstratiev Geshov

Ivan Evstratiev Geshov

Ivan Evstratiev Geshov was a Bulgarian politician who served as Prime Minister.Born in Plovdiv to a family originally from Karlovo, Geshov was educated at various Greek and Protestant institutions, as well as Owens College in Manchester...

, Todor Ivanchov

Todor Ivanchov

Todor Ivanchov was a supporter of Vasil Radoslavov who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 13 October 1899 to 25 January 1901.Born in Veliko Tarnovo, he was educated at Robert College and in Montpellier, specializing in economics...

, Konstantin Stoilov

Konstantin Stoilov

Konstantin Stoilov was a leading Bulgarian politician and twice Prime Minister. Simeon Radev described him as the most European-like of all Bulgarian politicians....

 and many other Bulgarian revolutionaries were.

The nephew of Aleksandar Stamboliyski

Aleksandar Stamboliyski

Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

, he was chosen to appeal to the Western Allies

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 after they had rejected the advances of his predecessor Ivan Ivanov Bagryanov. Muraviev ratified the abolition of all laws against Jews on 5 September and on the 8th he declared war on Nazi Germany

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. However, his efforts were a failure as, after little more than a week in the job, his government was overthrown by the Fatherland Front

Fatherland Front (Bulgaria)

The Fatherland Front was originally a Bulgarian political resistance movement during World War II. The Zveno movement, the communist Bulgarian Workers Party, a wing of the Agrarian Union and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party, were all part of the FF...

 coup of 9 September 1944 as the Red Army

Red Army

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advanced into the country.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Muraviev escaped execution after the war and published a book on Bulgarian politics, Sŭbitiya i khora (Събития и хора), in 1963.