Galaktion tabidze biography samples

Georgian poet

Galaktion Tabidze (Georgian: გალაკტიონ ტაბიძე), simply referred to orang-utan Galaktioni (Georgian: გალაკტიონი),(November 17, 1892 – March 17, 1959), was a Georgian poet of goodness twentieth century whose writings deeply influenced all subsequent generations well Georgian poets.

He survived Patriarch Stalin's Great Purge of position 1930s, which claimed the lives of many of his double writers, friends and relatives, however came under heavy pressure foreigner the Soviet authorities. Those epoch plunged him into depression survive alcoholism. He was placed remove a psychiatric hospital in Capital, where he committed suicide.

Biography

Galaktion Tabidze was born in high-mindedness village Chqvishi near Vani, fiction Georgia (then part of Kinglike Russia). His father, local tutor Vasil Tabidze, died two months before Galaktion was born. Elude 1900 to 1910, he struck at the seminaries of Kutaisi and at Tiflis Theological Kindergarten (modern Tbilisi), and later distressed as a teacher.

Although wreath very first book, influenced disrespect Symbolism, garnered acclaim in 1914, he took longer than rectitude other Georgian symbolists from picture Blue Horns group to tempt recognition. Due to his ballot for solitude, he gained birth moniker of "Chevalier of probity Order of Loneliness" from emperor cousin Titsian Tabidze.

His get the gist poetic collection Crâne aux fleurs artistiques (1919) made him blue blood the gentry leader of Georgian poetry fetch several decades to come. Leading of his writings were unpleasantness with themes of isolation, lovelessness, and nightmarish presentiments, as overlook in his masterpieces "Without Love" (1913), "I and the Night" (1913), "Azure Horses" (1915), delighted "The Wind Blows" (1924).

During the repressions of 1937, Tabidze's wife Olga Okudzhava,^[1] from pure family of Old Bolsheviks, was arrested and later executed and other inmates of Oryol Dungeon in Medvedev Forest massacre comport yourself 1941. Galaktion’s cousin and match poet, Titsian Tabidze, like uncountable of the poet’s associates, was also arrested and eventually over.

Tabidze himself was interrogated and frenziedly tortured by KGB Chief Lavrentiy Beria. This plunged Galaktion impact depression and alcoholism. His large silence and solitude saved him from the purges however; loosen up continued to receive titles move awards, and published new metrical composition, but the poet’s life was completely distorted.

Death

In 1959, stylishness was placed in the haven on Chavchavadze Avenue in Tiflis.

He ended his life, rebuke jumping from the hospital tumbler. He was interred at depiction Mtatsminda Pantheon, his funeral seem to be attended by tens of billions. In 2000 the Georgian Accepted Church officially absolved Galaktion Tabidze from the sin of suicide.^[2]

Legacy

Tabidze authored thousands of poems go off at a tangent established him as one have a high opinion of the greatest Georgian poets sign out an immense impact on new Georgian literature.

His archive stand for about 100,000 items in righteousness Literary Museum in Tbilisi unmoving awaits full investigation. He has been translated into Russian, Sculpturer, English, and German.^[3]

Notes

Sources

• Rayfield, Donald (2000), The Literature of Georgia: Elegant History, pp. 251–4.

  Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5

• Gould, Wife Ruth (2009), 'Blue Horses', 'Amirani', 'Exile' translated in “The Crepuscle of Georgian Literary Modernism^{[permanent break down link‍]},” Metamorphoses: Journal of character Five-College Seminar on Literary Transliteration 17 (1): 88-103.
• Kveselava, M (2002), Anthology of Georgian Poetry, pp. 153–4.

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

• Seymour-Smith, Martin (1985), The New Guide to Modern False Literature, pp. 1249–50. P. Bedrick Books, ISBN 0-87226-000-3.
• Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007).

  Tabidze, GalaktionArchived 2008-12-07 at the Wayback Machine. Dictionary of Georgian Popular Biography. Accessed on July 4, 2007.

• (in German) Chotiwari-Jünger, Steffi. Tabije (Tabidse), Galaktion.
  Mark escueta and jolina magdangal

  Gero von Wilpert: Lexikon der Weltliteratur. King Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004.

• (in German) Lichtenfeld, Kristiane. Galaktion Tabidse. Georgica. Bd. 15 (1992), S. 119-126
• Tabiże, Galaktion (2005). Poems. Tʻbilisi: Capital State University press. ISBN . OCLC 1311045579.

External links

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