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Geo Milev (January 15, 1895, Radnevo
Radnevo

Radnevo is a town in southern Bulgaria, part of Stara Zagora Province. It is located in the eastern Upper Thracian Lowlands close to the Maritsa Iztok Complex....
 - after May 15, 1925, Sofia
Sofia

Sofia , is the Capital and largest city of the Bulgaria, with 2,5 million people living in the Capital Municipality. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, economic, and educational centre of the country....
), born Georgi Kasabov Milev , was a Bulgarian
Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavs people generally associated with the Republic of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian language. Emigration has resulted in Bulgarian minorities or immigrant communities in a number of other countries....
 poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
.

v studied in Sofia
Sofia

Sofia , is the Capital and largest city of the Bulgaria, with 2,5 million people living in the Capital Municipality. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, economic, and educational centre of the country....
 and later in Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
 where he was introduced to German Expressionism
Expressionism

Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, theatre, film, Expressionist architecture and Expressionism ....
. His university thesis was on Richard Dehmel
Richard Dehmel

Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel was a Germany poet and writer....
. Beginning in 1916 he fought in the First World War, where he was severely injured. After recuperating in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 he began to collaborate with the magazine Aktion.






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Geo Milev (January 15, 1895, Radnevo
Radnevo

Radnevo is a town in southern Bulgaria, part of Stara Zagora Province. It is located in the eastern Upper Thracian Lowlands close to the Maritsa Iztok Complex....
 - after May 15, 1925, Sofia
Sofia

Sofia , is the Capital and largest city of the Bulgaria, with 2,5 million people living in the Capital Municipality. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, economic, and educational centre of the country....
), born Georgi Kasabov Milev , was a Bulgarian
Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavs people generally associated with the Republic of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian language. Emigration has resulted in Bulgarian minorities or immigrant communities in a number of other countries....
 poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
.

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Milev studied in Sofia
Sofia

Sofia , is the Capital and largest city of the Bulgaria, with 2,5 million people living in the Capital Municipality. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, economic, and educational centre of the country....
 and later in Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
 where he was introduced to German Expressionism
Expressionism

Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, theatre, film, Expressionist architecture and Expressionism ....
. His university thesis was on Richard Dehmel
Richard Dehmel

Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel was a Germany poet and writer....
. Beginning in 1916 he fought in the First World War, where he was severely injured. After recuperating in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 he began to collaborate with the magazine Aktion. Upon his return to Bulgaria he started to publish the Bulgarian modernist magazine ????? (Scale), in Sofia. He contributed as a translator, theatre reviewer, director and editor of anthologies. In 1922, he joined the Communist Party.

He was murdered in prison after being accused of taking part in the St Nedelya Church assault
St Nedelya Church assault

The St Nedelya Church assault was a terrorist attack on St. Nedelya Church in Bulgaria. It was carried out on 16 April 1925, when a group of the Bulgarian Communist Party blew up the roof of the St Nedelya Church in the capital Sofia....
. His fate remained unknown, but later it was found out that after being sentenced to one year in prison and a financial punishment, he was taken for a "short interrogation" during which he was strangled the day after the verdict and then buried in a mass grave. His body was found when in the 1950s a mass grave with victims of 1925 was discovered during the construction of a dam. His body was identified due to the glass eye he was wearing after he lost an eye in World War I. He used to hide the lost eye by wearing a special haircut.

Works

His most famous poem is September published in the magazine ?????? (Flame) in 1924. It describes the brutal suppression of the Bulgarian uprising of September 1923 against the military coup d'état of June 1923.

Selected bibliography

  • ????????? ??????? (1920), The Cruel Ring
  • ????????????????? ?????????? ?? 1921 (1921), A Little Expressionist Calendar for the Year 1921
  • ???????? ?? ????? ?. ?. ?????? (1922), The Commemoration Ceremony for the Poet P. K. Javorov
  • ??????? ????, (1922), The Icons Sleep


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