Large houses-museums of Georgia. Galaktion and Titian Tabidze House Museum.

The Museum of Georgian poets Galaktion and Titian Tabidze is located in four buildings, two of which are houses of the "ode" type, in which the poets were born.

The "King of Poetry" Galaktion Tabidze (1891-1959) was educated at the Kutaisi elementary school and at the spiritual schools of Kutaisi and Tbilisi. In 1918, he graduated from the Moscow Directing Courses for stage lovers. In 1922 he edited the magazine "Lomisi". In 1922-23, he founded his own literary organ, the Galaktion Tabidze Magazine. In 1927 Galaktion became a member of the new literary association "Arifioni".

In 1928, he participated in the 6th Congress of the Communist International in Moscow. In 1935, Galaktion became a member of the Presidium of the World Congress for the Protection of Culture in Paris. In 1944, he was elected a full member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. In 1953-57 he was in charge of the poetry section in the Writers' Union of Georgia. He published his first poems in 1908, and his first collection in 1914 in Kutaisi.

Because of the poem "Memories of those days that flashed by" published in 1924 in the Mnatobi magazine, the poet was arrested, and the entire circulation of the magazine was destroyed. In 1937, Galaktion's wife, Olga Okudzhava, was arrested and sentenced to eternal exile. Galaktion Tabidze was awarded the title of "People's Poet", and he was awarded the Order of Lenin (1932). He wrote such masterpieces of modern Georgian poetry as "The Moon of Mtatsminda", "Blue Horses", "Me and the Night", "Without Love", "Azure, or a Rose in the sand" and others.