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- ↑ Merabishvili, Innes (translator) (2011). Galaktion Tabidze: Selected Poems. Tbilisi: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-1905510368.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ↑ Tabidze, Galaktion. "Perspectives Student Journal" (PDF). Retrieved 2 June 2012.