Monument to Galaktioni, the king of poets. (In my opinion) the greatest wordsmith to ever live, attaining a level of prosaic mastery and musicality untranslatable between languages. His family were imprisoned and executed by the soviets one by one during the purge of the intelligentsia - he himself savagely beaten, tortured and locked up in a psyche ward until his eventual suicide. Died poor as dirt, with not even a single pair of shoes to his name, leaving behind a legacy of beauty as bittersweet as his story - never to gain international recognition due to the limitations of language. ![[Pasted image 20260504230004.png]]