Osip Mandelshtam was Jewish, of Latvian parents, and was brought up in St Petersburg. He visited the Crimea in 1921. His individualistic poetry with its responsiveness to classical Greece and Rome, and its lament for the direction the Russian Revolution had taken, provoked and offended Stalin and he .. .. more >>

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"Each thick finger, a fattened worm, gesticulates,
And his words strike you like they were many-pound weights.
His full cockroach moustache hints a laughter benigning,
And the shafts of his boots: always spotlessly shining."
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), Russian poet. "We Exist in a Country Grown Unreal and Strange," trans by Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks. This satire of Stalin led to Mandelstam's arrest and exile to a concentration camp.

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Osip Mandelstam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Osip Mandelstam: "The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam", translated by Burton Raffel and Alla Burago. State University of New York Press (USA), ...
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Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam was born in Warsaw but he grew up in St.Petersburg. His father was a successful leather-goods dealer and his mother a piano teacher. ...
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Photographs of Osip Mandelstam An online collection of photographs from Stanford University. ... Osip Mandelstam. Born in January, 1891, in Warsaw, Poland, ...
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Stories about Osip Mandelstam's life and Hope Against Hope, Fifty Poems, Critical Prose, The Voronezh Notebooks. With links to essays & literary criticism ...
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