page_title: Geo Milev
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Geo Milev / Death
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Autoritratto 1918.
context_page_description: Geo Milev, was a Bulgarian poet, journalist, and translator. Geo Milev is perhaps best known for his epic poem Septemvri, written in the aftermath of the Communist-led September Uprising.
context_section_description: 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. 
  His daughter was the writer and diplomat Leda Mileva.
caption: Self-portrait 1918
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