Galaktion Tabidze
Georgian poet
- Lived
- 1891–1959
- Country
- Russia
Updated September 2026
About Galaktion Tabidze
Galaktion Tabidze, simply referred to as Galaktioni, , was a Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings profoundly influenced all subsequent generations of Georgian poets. He survived Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s, which claimed the lives of many of his fellow writers, friends and relatives, but came under heavy pressure from the Soviet authorities. Those years plunged him into depression and alcoholism. He was placed in a psychiatric hospital in Tbilisi, where he committed suicide.
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