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After that period Vassil Levsky, the Apostle of Freedom, stood at the helm of the struggle for national liberation. Based on his experience he decided that the April Uprising of 1876 was doomed and did not take part in it. By that time the 38-year-old Panayot Hitov had come to terms with the fact that the scattered small outlaw units can no longer oppose the military power of the Ottoman Empire. Despite the bloody quelling of the revolt, the uprising sped the course of history and led to the Russo-Turkish War of Liberation of 1877/78, which brought Bulgaria’s liberation. For 20 years he had been crossing the thickets of the Balkan Range, had struck an alliance with Serbia and the Montenegrin chieftains, aided organizations of Bulgarian emigrants in Wallachia and Belgrade who fought for Bulgaria’s liberation. He died at the age of 88 but managed to record his life in a tiny volume. He joined an organization whose objective was to work for the reunification of Northern and Southern Bulgaria divided by force of the Berlin Treaty of 1878. He was decorated with two valour medals. He was very active in the Reunification of 1885 and the Serbo-Bulgarian War of the same year. His friend and fellow-thinker Georgi Rakovski, who was the first man who tried to develop an overall strategy for the detachment tactics of the liberation, named him ‘the senior Bulgarian chieftain”. Hitov drank to the full the bitter cup of treachery, hardship and penury, but lived to see his country liberated only to suffer great disappointments anew. However, he put forward a totally different tactics by setting up a network of revolutionary committees in the country that will prepare a nationwide uprising against the oppressor. Known as a Russophile he was thrown in jail by the anti-Russia government of the time in 1892, but was released because ordinary citizens paid his bail that amounted to the exorbitant sum of 5 thousand olden Bulgarian levs. Panayot Hitov and his right hand Filip Totyu have been considered the most successful Bulgarian chieftains. Panayot Hitov took an active part as a volunteer and with his knowledge of the local terrain and the secret passes through the Balkan Range was indispensable in helping the Russian troops cross the mountain. Soon after the Liberation Panayot Hitov became involved in the political life of the young Bulgarian state. The peak of the detachment period of the national liberation struggle coincided with the late 1850s and 1860s.