The brothers Dimitar (Struga, 1810 – Constantinople, January 23, 1862) and Constantine (Struga, 1830 – Constantinople, January 18, 1862) Miladins, are the founders of the national revival in Macedonia from the middle of the 19th century. They were born in a family of eight children to the potter Riste and his wife Sultana. They finished elementary school in Struga, and high school in Ioannina, today’s Greece. With a teacher’s diploma, the brothers returned to their native region. They are engaged in collecting and recording Macedonian folk songs and other creations. Due to the clashes with the Greeks, Dimitar left Bitola, but at the end of 1856 he returned to Struga and sent Konstantin to Moscow to study Slavic philology. While preparing the Collection, Constantine himself begins to write poetry. His poetic work, although modest (only 15 poems), puts him on the pedestal of Macedonian new literature as the founder of Macedonian artistic poetry. With the song “T’ga za yug”, which has 70 renditions in 42 languages, the Struga evenings of poetry open every year. In 1859, Constantine fell ill with tuberculosis and left for home. By the way, he meets the Croatian bishop Josip Juraj Strosmeier who agrees to finance the printing of the Proceedings.

In honor of the Miladinovci brothers, their native house in Struga has been turned into a memorial house.