Mishi Bakhshiev (; ; born October 10, 1910 â 1972) was a Soviet writer and poet of Mountain Jew origin. He wrote in languages of the Mountain Jews (Juhuri) and Russian.
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 1933âÂÂ1940 he wrote several collections of poems ("Komsomol", "Fruits of October"), novels (Juhuri:àÿÃÂÃÂþÃÂõàÃÂø ÃÂþ÷õ ÷øýôõóÃÂýø) â "Towards a New Life", (Juhuri:Vetegechiho) â "Fishermen" and dramas (Juhuri:ÃÂõÃÂóÃÂýø øóøôàþ) â "Victory of the Hero", (Juhuri:Ã¥þÃÂø) â "Earth", as well as the musical comedy (Juhuri:èþàÃÂóûø, ÃÂþàÃÂññðàòð-àþüñþû Ã¥ðÃÂðý) â "Shah's son, Shah Abbas and the loader Hasan". In the postwar years, Bakhshiyev wrote a collection of poems (Juhuri:ÃÂõ àþÃÂôõýÃÂÃÂü òðÃÂðûõ) â "I love spring", which was published only after the death of the author. In 1962âÂÂ1963 he wrote in (Juhuri:ÃÂ¥ÃÂÃÂðàþù þýóÃÂÃÂ) â "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 ("Stories about my fellow countrymen", 1956; "Common people", 1958; "Gardens will rustle", 1962, etc.) Bakhshiev's last play was Juhuri:ÃÂàôõôõù) â "Two Mothers", 1965.