Early Life

Christo Moskovsky was born to father Goran (28 September 1921 – 26 November 1994) and mother Zdravka (15 August 1926 ­– 7 January 2009). Goran was a medical doctor, while Zdravka was a German language teacher. Christo has one sibling, Marta (22 March 1951). 

Christo’s childhood years took place in the 1960s. Although postwar rationing was no longer in place, life wasn't easy at all. People had access to little more than the most basic staples and making sure one's family is properly provided for was not a trivial task. Thanks to Goran and Zdravka's unsparing efforts, Marta and Christo had a safe and relatively comfortable childhood. 

Although Christo was at the time too young to appreciate that, a political shadow hung over the Moskovsky family. In the early 1950s Ivanka, one of Goran's sisters, was arrested and deported to the infamous Belene concentration camp where she remained detained for three years. Ivanka's crime? She had been employed as a translator at the US Embassy in Sofia. Subsequently, the Moskovskys were marked by association as "untrustworthy" and the regime remained hostile to them for many years to come.