Mishi Bakhshiev

Mishi Bakhshiev was a Soviet writer and poet of Mountain Jew origin. He wrote in languages of the Mountain Jews and Russian.

Biography

Bakhshiev was born in 1910, in the Southern Russian city of Derbent. In 1928 he was sent to study in Krasnodar, and then to Moscow. In 1936 he graduated from the State University of Farming. During the World War II, he was a war correspondent. He held various party positions, worked in leading positions in the newspaper "Dagestankaya Pravda".
In 1932, Bakhshiev wrote his first story "Towards a New Life." In 1933–1940 he wrote several collections of poems, novels – "Towards a New Life", – "Fishermen" and dramas – "Victory of the Hero", – "Earth", as well as the musical comedy – "Shah's son, Shah Abbas and the loader Hasan".
In the postwar years, Bakhshiyev wrote a collection of poems – "I love spring", which was published only after the death of the author. In 1962–1963 he wrote in – "A Bunch of Grapes", it was the first novel in the Mountain Jewish literature.
Bakhshiev was also involved in translations from Russian into Juhuri. He translated Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov and Nizami Ganjavi.
Some works of prose he wrote in Russian
Bakhshiev's last play was Juhuri:Дю дедей) – "Two Mothers", 1965.