Bulgarian soldier and Poet Geo Milev poses

Bulgarian soldier and Poet Geo Milev poses for a photo, showing that he lost his right eye during combat in World War I

He was murdered by police in 1925 for being a member of the Bulgarian Communist party. He was strangled with a wire and his skull was found in a mass grave 30 years later, with the false eye that he wore after his injuries still in his eye socket. His works are mostly known for going into detail about the brutal suppression of the communist uprising in 1923 in Bulgaria, which failed. His works also talk about his time in combat Geo Milev (born Georgi Milev Kasabov; 15 January [O.S. 27 January] 1895 – 15 May 1925) was a Bulgarian poet, translator and journalist. He is perhaps best known for his epic poem Septemvri, written during the Bulgarian September Uprising. Geo Milev was born Georgi Milev Kasabov in Radne mahale, today Radnevo, the first son in the family of school teachers Milyo[c] and Anastasia Kasabovi. In 1897 the family moved to Stara Zagora, where his father started a publishing business in 1907. Geo Milev attended the town's high school from 1907 to 1911 before he went on to study at the Faculty of Philology of Sofia University. From 1912 Geo Milev continued his education at the Faculty of Philosophy of Leipzig University, where he was introduced to German Expressionism. On 30 July 1914, two days after the outbreak of the First World War, he traveled from Leipzig to⁰ London, where he spent several months sightseeing and improving his English and met the Belgian Symbolist poet Émile Ver1907. Geo Milevhaeren. On returning to Germany, Geo Milev was detained in Hamburg on 18 October 1914 on suspicion of being an English spy. He was released after eleven days and returned to Leipzig, where he worked on his university thesis on Richard Dehmel. On 8 August 1915 he returned to Bulgaria without having obtained a degree. Beginning in 1916 he fought in World War I, where he was severely injured. After recuperating in Berlin he began to collaborate with the magazine Aktion. Upon his return to Bulgaria he started to publish the Bulgarian modernist magazine Везни (Scales), in Sofia. He contributed to the publication as a translator, theatre reviewer, director and editor of anthologies. On May 15, 1925, in the course of government reprisals following the St Nedelya Church assault, Geo Milev, a member of the Bulgarian Communist party, was taken to a police station for a "short interrogation" from which he never returned. His fate remained unknown for 30 years. In 1954 during the trial of General Ivan Valkov and a group of former police and military executioners, one of the defendants confessed how victims of the 1925 purge had been executed and where they were buried. Geo Milev had been strangled with wire and then buried in a mass grave in Ilientsi, near Sofia. His skull was found in the mass grave. His body was identified by the glass eye he was wearing after he lost his right eye in World War I.

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