Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Karnicheva i Kruševo i te Ottoman-e whakahaerehia ana i Maketonia (i tenei ra i te Raki o Maketonia) ki tetahi whanau Aromanian Bulgarophile, me tana tupuna tupuna he tohunga Bulgarian. I mahi tōna pāpā i Sofia me Tsaribrod. I te tukinga o te 1903
I mua i te whakaekenga o Ilinden, ka neke a Mencha me tona whaea ki Bulgaria. I te Mahuru 1918 i haere ia ki te ako i Munich, engari i hoki mai ki Bulgaria i muri i te mutunga o te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao.