as a litterateur while engaging in treason and espionage, and maintaining that his suicide during the course of their meeting was "a provocative act that arouses loathing and indignation in every decent gathering of Soviet writers." References Further reading Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007), Iashvili, Paolo. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography. Retrieved on May 15, 2007. Rayfield, Donald (1982), Pasternak and the Georgians. Irish Slavonic Studies, 3: 39–46. Rayfiled, Donald (1990), The Death of Paolo Iashvili. Slavonic and East European Review, 68 no. 3: 631–64. External links The website dedicated to Paolo Iashvili. Gould, Rebecca, Georgian Literary Modernism: Poems by Titsian Tabidze, Paolo Iashvili and Galaktion Tabidze. Metamorphosis: A Journal of Literary Translation, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 66–103, 2009. 1894 births 1937 suicides Male poets from Georgia (country) People from Kutaisi Suicides by firearm in the Soviet Union 20th-century poets from Georgia (country) 20th-century male writers Soviet poets 1937 deaths