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Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school.
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culture · Russian and Soviet poet (1891–1938) · poet · writer · translator · literary critic · essayist · librettist · also Osip Mandelstam, Osip Mandelshtam, Osip E. Mandelstam, Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam, Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam, Mandelstam
Born 3 January 1891 · Died 27 December 1938 · Q189950
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2022· 1 entry
The Atlantic: Poems by Osip Mandelstam
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2021· 1 entry
The album Sokhrani moyu rech' navsegda (Russian: «Сохрани мою речь навсегда», lit
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2020· 1 entry
Noemi Jaffe, a Brazilian writer, wrote a book about his persecution and how his wife managed to preserve his work, called "What she whispers" (O que ela sussurra)
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2017· 1 entry
The Australian Financial Review: Osip Mandelstam – a lifetime of suffering but an eternity of good writing
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2016· 1 entry
The Financial Times: ‘Second Notebook, 51’, by Osip Mandelstam
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2014· 1 entry
RBTH: The final days of Russian writers: Osip Mandelstam
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2012· 3 entries
The Washington Post: Osip Mandelstam: ‘Stolen Air: Selected Poems’
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The Atlantic: Osip Mandelstam
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The Nation: Lyric Nation: Three Poems by Osip Mandelstam
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1998· 1 entry
A monument was put up in Vladivostok in his memory
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1977· 1 entry
A minor planet, 3461 Mandelshtam, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, was named after him
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1956· 1 entry
During the Khrushchev thaw, Mandelstam was rehabilitated and exonerated from the charges brought against him in 1938
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1938· 3 entries
Died 1938-12-27.
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“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”
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Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to five years in a corrective-labour camp in the Soviet Far East
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1922· 2 entries
Mandelstam married Nadezhda Mandelstam in Kiev, Ukraine, where she lived with her family, but the couple settled in Moscow
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Mandelstam and Nadezhda moved to Moscow
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1916· 1 entry
Mandelstam was passionately involved with the poet Marina Tsvetayeva
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1913· 1 entry
Published his first collection of poems, The Stone; it was reissued in 1916 under the same title, but with additional poems included
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1911· 2 entries
And several other young Russian poets formed the "Poets' Guild", under the formal leadership of Nikolai Gumilyov and Sergei Gorodetsky
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Decided to continue his education at the University of Saint Petersburg, from which Jews were excluded
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1905· 1 entry
Became closely associated with symbolist imagery
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1900· 1 entry
Mandelstam entered the prestigious Tenishev School
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-01-03.
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