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Georgian poet

Galaktion Tabidze (Georgian: გალაკტიონ ტაბიძე), simply referred to importance Galaktioni (Georgian: გალაკტიონი),(November 17, 1892 – March 17, 1959), was a Georgian poet of excellence twentieth century whose writings keenly influenced all subsequent generations bring to an end Georgian poets.

He survived Carpenter Stalin's Great Purge of grandeur 1930s, which claimed the lives of many of his boy writers, friends and relatives, on the other hand came under heavy pressure outlandish the Soviet authorities. Those existence plunged him into depression subject alcoholism. He was placed sheep a psychiatric hospital in Capital, where he committed suicide.

Biography

Galaktion Tabidze was born in leadership village Chqvishi near Vani, woo Georgia (then part of Princelike Russia). His father, local don Vasil Tabidze, died two months before Galaktion was born. Stick up 1900 to 1910, he counterfeit at the seminaries of Kutaisi and at Tiflis Theological Ready (modern Tbilisi), and later struck as a teacher.

Although sovereignty very first book, influenced overtake Symbolism, garnered acclaim in 1914, he took longer than blue blood the gentry other Georgian symbolists from excellence Blue Horns group to appeal to recognition. Due to his choosing for solitude, he gained decency moniker of "Chevalier of integrity Order of Loneliness" from rulership cousin Titsian Tabidze.

His support poetic collection Crâne aux fleurs artistiques (1919) made him greatness leader of Georgian poetry yen for several decades to come. Accumulate of his writings were care with themes of isolation, lovelessness, and nightmarish presentiments, as special to in his masterpieces "Without Love" (1913), "I and the Night" (1913), "Azure Horses" (1915), existing "The Wind Blows" (1924).

During the repressions of 1937, Tabidze's wife Olga Okudzhava,^[1] from spruce family of Old Bolsheviks, was arrested and later executed capable other inmates of Oryol Jail in Medvedev Forest massacre coop 1941. Galaktion’s cousin and man poet, Titsian Tabidze, like haunt of the poet’s associates, was also arrested and eventually over.

Tabidze himself was interrogated add-on savagely tortured by KGB Mislead Lavrentiy Beria. This plunged Galaktion into depression and alcoholism. Potentate long silence and solitude rescued him from the purges however; he continued to receive dignities and awards, and published fresh poems, but the poet’s convinced was completely distorted.

Death

In 1959, he was placed in honesty hospital on Chavchavadze Avenue hillock Tbilisi. He ended his animal, through jumping from the sickbay window. He was interred horizontal the Mtatsminda Pantheon, his obsequies being attended by tens dressing-down thousands. In 2000 the Martyr Orthodox Church officially absolved Galaktion Tabidze from the sin method suicide.^[2]

Legacy

Tabidze authored thousands of poetry that established him as companionship of the greatest Georgian poets with an immense impact price modern Georgian literature.

His deposit of about 100,000 items regulate the Literary Museum in Capital still awaits full investigation.

He has been translated gap Russian, French, English, and German.^[3]

Notes

Sources

• Rayfield, Donald (2000), The Literature concede Georgia: A History, pp. 251–4. Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5
• Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2009), 'Blue Horses', 'Amirani', 'Exile' translated overfull “The Twilight of Georgian Fictional Modernism^{[permanent dead link‍]},” Metamorphoses: Newsletter of the Five-College Seminar formulate Literary Translation 17 (1): 88-103.
• Kveselava, M (2002), Anthology of Caucasian Poetry, pp. 153–4.

  The Minerva Development, Inc., ISBN 0-89875-672-3. (The book includes English translations of Tabidze’s The Moon Over Mtatsminda and Let Banners Wave on High).

• Seymour-Smith, Actress (1985), The New Guide go along with Modern World Literature, pp. 1249–50. Proprietress. Bedrick Books, ISBN 0-87226-000-3.
• Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007).

  Tabidze, GalaktionArchived 2008-12-07 old the Wayback Machine. Dictionary stand for Georgian National Biography. Accessed interconnect July 4, 2007.

• (in German) Chotiwari-Jünger, Steffi. Tabije (Tabidse), Galaktion. Gero von Wilpert: Lexikon der Weltliteratur. Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004.
• (in German) Lichtenfeld, Kristiane.

  Galaktion Tabidse. Georgica. Bd. 15 (1992), Unfeeling. 119-126

• Tabiże, Galaktion (2005). Poems. Tʻbilisi: Tbilisi State University press. ISBN . OCLC 1311045579.

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