Life
Vlado Chernozemski was born in a village called Kamenitsa, now part of the town Velingrad. His father was Dimitar Kerin and his mother was Risa Baltadzieva, both from Kamenitsa. He attended primary school in his village. As a youngster, he was prone to drinking alcohol, but later he turned to a healthy life and become a vegetarian. He was a recruit in Plovdiv. During World War I, Chernozemski served in the engineer troops. He married in 1919. After the war he worked as a driver and watchmaker. In 1923, his daughter, Latinka, was born. In 1925, he divorced and remarried. He lived in Sofia until 1932. There are no records about him beyond that year, but he was re-identified in 1934, after he assassinated the Yugoslav King Alexander in Marseille.
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