318:, where they notified him of the forthcoming events and requested his approval. The prince did not wish to be publicly involved in an anti-Ottoman revolution, and is unclear whether he at all believed a revolution was likely to break out in Eastern Rumelia so soon. During the revolution, Mutkurov commanded some of the troops that surrounded the residence of the provincial governor
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organized a counter-coup which was widely supported by the population. Mutkurov was appointed by
Stambolov as the commander-in-chief of the troops loyal to Prince Alexander, and soldiers from his Plovdiv garrison were transferred to the capital
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would go as far as to say that "by the time
Mutkurov opened his mouth, the market would close up". Together with the other two long-serving regents of 1886–1887, Stambolov and Zhivkov, Mutkurov was one of only three persons to receive the
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on 6 September 1885, the bloodless revolution that united the
Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. Mutkurov joined the Bulgarian Secret Revolutionary Central Committee which stood behind the unification. At the time a
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Despite his active involvement in practically all major events in
Bulgarian history during his lifetime, Mutkurov has been described as "very reserved and taciturn" even though he was also "honest and firm". Writer
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On 1 September 1887 that year, Mutkurov became
Minister of War in Stefan Stambolov's Popular Liberal Party government. Mutkurov was a loyal friend and trusted man of the premier Stambolov, who even made him his
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Following the unification, from 6 to 8 September, Mutkurov was a member of the interim provincial government presided by the
Commissar of South Bulgaria,
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Offensive on 14 and 15 November. After the war
Mutkurov was appointed chief of the Plovdiv garrison and commanded the 5th Infantry Brigade.
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Battalion and thereafter with the general staff. As an eminent man of arms in
Eastern Rumelia, Mutkurov was one of the main leaders of the
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Mutkurov also played an important part in the turbulent events of 1886. In the wake of a pro-Russian
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on 7 September 1886 under Russian pressure. Until the election of another Bulgarian monarch, Prince
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regards Mutkurov as a "phlegmatic person" and his contemporary and accomplice in the unification
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to arrest or drive out the plotters. The events nevertheless led to Prince Alexander's
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in 1878, Mutkurov settled in Eastern Rumelia, where he joined the provincial police or
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on 13 November and was also in charge of the central and right wing forces during the
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1st grade, he was among the chief architects of the
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