 His father, local teacher Vasil Tabidze, died two months before Galaktion was born.From 1900 to 1910, he studied at the seminaries of Kutaisi and Tbilisi, and later worked as a teacher.Although his very first book, influenced by Symbolism, garnered acclaim in 1914, he took longer than the other Georgian symbolists from the Blue Horns group to attract recognition.