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Rayko
Žizinfov was born in
Veles, in a very well known family there. His father worked
as teacher in a Hellenized school and raised under the influence of the Hellenic
spirit, he gave his son a Greek name Xenofon (on Macedonian Rayko).
Rayko Žizinfov finished primary school in Veles
and later he goes to help his father in Prilep to work. But soon in 1856, he
gets under the influence of the Macedonian struggle for cultural revial, leaded
in that period by
Dimitar Miladinov. Together with Dimitar Miladinov he leaves Prilep and goes to
Kukuš (today Aegean Macedonia, Greek name Kilkis), where he works, to stop the
Greek influence in the schools.
In 1858 he leaves Macedonia, and goes to Russia
in Odessa and in Moscow to study in a university. There he establishes
connections with some Macedonian students and especially with
Konstatin Miladinov. He takes active work into the party of the students from the
Slavic regions under Turkish rule. In 1960 he becomes director of the magazine
"Bratski Trud". In 1865 he finishes his studies. And in 1866 he visits
Macedonia, and he goes back again in Russia where he teaches to the end of his
life. He died in Moscow in 1877. |
