Dimitriya Chupovski (1870 - 1940), a scientist, publicist and polititian; the organizer and president of the Macedonian colony in St. Petersburg; editor of the review “Makedonski glas” (“The Macedonian Voice”). On the international level, he was a supporter of free and united Macedonia as an independent state within the Balkan federation; a very prominent teoretitian and a supporter of the Macedonian national and political idea during the first half of the 20^th century