Titsian Tabidze
| ტიციანი Titsiani |
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| Born | 21 March 1895 Imereti, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 16 December 1937 (aged 42) (killed by NKVD) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union or Siberia |
| Occupation | poet |
| Language | Georgian |
| Nationality | Georgian |
| Genre | poetry, symbolism |
| Literary movement | Blue Horns |
| Spouse | Nino Makashvili |
| Children | Nita Tabidze |
| Relatives | Galaktion Tabidze |
Titsian Tabidze (Georgian: ტიციან ტაბიძე), simply referred to as Titsiani (Georgian: ტიციანი) (March 21, 1895 – December 16, 1937) was a Georgian poet and one of the leaders of Georgian symbolist movement. He fell victim to Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge, was arrested and executed on trumped-up charges of treason. Tabidze was a close friend of the well-known Russian writer Boris Pasternak who translated his poetry into Russian.
Tabidze was born to a Georgian Orthodox priest in the province of Imereti, western Georgia, then part of Kutais Governorate, Imperial Russia. Educated at the University of Moscow, he returned to Georgia to become one of the cofounders and main ideologues of the Blue Horns, a coterie of young Georgian symbolists founded in 1916. Later, Tabidze's combined European and Oriental trends into eclectic poetry which significantly leaned towards Futurism and Dadaism, while also paying tribute to the classics of Georgian literature, which had so notoriously been attacked by the early Blue Horns. After the establishment of Soviet rule in Georgia in 1921, he chose a conciliatory line towards the Bolshevik regime, but did not abandon his Futuristic and decadent style despite his half-hearted attempts at praising the "builders of socialism".
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