Rakovski laid the foundations for the organized national-revolutionary battle for the liberation of Bulgaria.
He was also a renowned publicist, journalist, historian and ethnographer.
He was born in Kotel on 2 April 1821 to merchant father Stoyko Popovich and Ruska Mamarcheva.
Between 1828-1834 Georgi Rakovski studied in his hometown church school where he studied Bulgarian and Greek.
In 1834 he enrolled in school in Karlovo where his teacher was Rayno Popovich.
Rakovski left Karlovo in 1836 due to a plague epidemic at the time.
At the end of 1837 he and his father went to Constantinople where he continued his education in the elite Greek school in Kuruchishme.
There Rakovsky studied philosophy, rhetoric, theology, math,Latin, physics, chemistry, French, Persian, Arabic and other subjects.
Georgi Rakovski was the first to organize a plan for the Liberation of Bulgaria. He led the national-liberation movement over a whole of ten years.
He has also inspired many of the participants of the April Uprising.
Georgi Rakovski was not only the founder of organizations and plans for the liberation of Bulgaria but was also a prominent publicist, writer and journalist.
His only goal in life was for Bulgaria to be liberated from Ottoman rule.
In the end of 1866, Georgi Sava Rakovski established SCBC - Secret Central Bulgarian Committee.
The aim of this new organization was to send bands to Bulgaria.
On the first of January SCBC issued the "Provisional Law on National forest bands for the summer of 1867" which explained how to send bands to Bulgaria and the "Code of the bands" (their rights and obligations).
Georgi Rakovski was certain that, through well-organized bands outside the country, the nation would be able to rise up for battle and free itself.
Around the end of 1867, two bands had entered Bulgaria succesfully - those of Filip Totyo and Panayot Hitov.
Georgi Rakovski died of tubercolosis on 9 October.