"He was not a Polish romantic." Biographer Cheslav Milos Anzhei Franishki
Cheslav Milos, 1986 Dmitry Volchek: On June 30, a hundred years of the birth of the Nobel laureate, Polish poet Cheslav Milos, marks. Milos was born in Lithuania, in the Russian Empire. A lawyer by education, in his youth adhered to left -wing political views. Member of the Polish resistance during the Second World War. In the post-war period, he worked as a Polish attache in culture in New York and Paris, in 1951 he asked for political asylum in France.