About Geo Milev Geo Milev (Bulgarian: Гео Милев) (January 15, 1895, Radnevo - after May 15, 1925, Sofia), born Georgi Kasabov Milev (Bulgarian: Георги Касабов Милев), was a Bulgarian poet and author.Milev studied in Sofia and later in Leipzig where he was introduced to German Expressionism. His university thesis was on Richard Dehmel. Beginning in 1916 he fought in the First World War, 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 (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. 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.