How did the Great Purge of the 1930s affect Georgian writers?

The Great Purge of the 1930s had a devastating impact on the Georgian literary community, effectively destroying the survivors of earlier Bolshevik repressions.1

This period of state-sponsored violence, overseen by Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, decimated the ranks of writers who had managed to endure the 1920s. For the few who survived the holocaust, the psychological and social toll was profound: they suffered the loss of friends and family, and many were left without the nerve or inspiration necessary to continue their creative work. This systematic destruction of the intelligentsia created a long-lasting chilling effect, as the subsequent post-Stalinist thaw occurred much more slowly in Georgia than in Russia.1