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| Native name | გალაკტიონი |
| Born | გალაკტიონ ტაბიძე Galaktion Tabidze November 17, 1892 Chqvishi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | March 17, 1959 (aged 66) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Mtatsminda Pantheon |
| Pen name | Galaktioni Roi Uchambskiy |
| Occupation | poet |
| Language | Georgian |
| Nationality | Georgian |
| Genre | poetry |
| Spouse | Olga Okujava |
| Relatives | Titsian Tabidze |
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Galaktion Tabidze (Georgian: გალაკტიონ ტაბიძე), simply referred to as Galaktioni (Georgian: გალაკტიონი),(November 17, 1892 – March 17, 1959), 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.