Giorgi Leonidze is the favourite poet of Georgian readers, his poetry still drawing special interest and admiration from all generations.

"He is a truly people’s poet, not thanks to awards or prizes, but because beginning from the 1930s Giorgi Leonidze reflected all major events in the country’s life in his poems. For many around him, his family, friends and acquaintances, he was just Gigla, the author of many worthy initiatives, the man of extraordinary personal charm", Zaza Abzianidze says in his introduction.