Galaktion Tabidze

Galaktion Tabidze was born on 17 November 1892 in the village of Chkvishi, near Vani; his father, the village schoolteacher, died before his birth, and his mother raised him in poverty. Educated at the seminaries of Kutaisi and then of Tbilisi from 1900 to 1910, he was a schoolteacher before living by his verse. His cousin, the poet Titsian Tabidze, was executed in 1937 and his wife, Olga Okudzhava, died in deportation; he himself was interrogated and beaten by Beria. Depression and alcohol took their toll: he took his own life in Tbilisi in 1959 and is buried in the Mtatsminda pantheon.

In the catalogue 1

• Poetryარტისტული ყვავილებიGalaktion Tabidze · 1919not translated into EnglishLiterature