Dmitrii Milev

Dmitrii Milev was born in 1887 in what was then Russian Bessarabia, in Baurci-Moldoveni; he came from the Bulgarians of Bessarabia and was a decorated officer of the Russian army during the First World War. A Bolshevik, he crossed the Dniester after the Tatarbunary uprising of 1924 and settled on the left bank, in Soviet Ukraine. There he directed the supplement Moldova Literară and worked at the state publishing houses. Arrested among the first during the purges of 1937, he was shot the same year, then rehabilitated.

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• Short storiesCălătóriiDmitrii Milev · 1930not translated into EnglishLiterature