 During the repressions of 1937, Tabidze's wife Olga Okudzhava, from a family of Old Bolsheviks, was arrested and exiled to Siberia where she died in 1944.Galaktion’s cousin and fellow poet, Titsian Tabidze, like many of the poet’s associates, was also arrested and eventually executed.Tabidze himself was interrogated and savagely tortured by KGB Chief Lavrentiy Beria.