Osip Mandelstam ranks among the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century. He was born in Warsaw, Poland in or around 1891, but soon afterward his family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia. In St. Petersburg, the Jewish Mandelstams—on the strength, according to some critics, of the father’s fine standing as a leather merchant—managed to live relatively free of the anti …

Osip Mandelstam ranges among the most outstanding Russian poets of the 20th century. He was also an essayist, an interpreter and a literary critic. Mandelstam was born in Warsaw in 1891. His father, a descendant of Spanish Jews, considered himself a philosopher. In reality, he was unsuccessful in both philosophy and commerce.

Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Russian: Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам, IPA: [nɐˈdʲeʐdə ˈjakəvlʲɪvnə mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam], née Khazina, Хазина; 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1899 – 29 December 1980) was a Russian Jewish writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia.

Leben. Ossip Mandelstam wurde 1891 als Sohn eines jüdischen Lederhändlers in Warschau geboren. In seiner Kindheit zog seine Familie nach Pawlowsk und später nach Petersburg, wo Mandelstam am renommierten Tenischew-Gymnasium eine breite geisteswissenschaftliche Ausbildung erhielt. Mit 16 Jahren lernte Mandelstam auf einer Parisreise, wo er Lesungen an …

1 day ago · Osip Mandelstam led a tragic life. He was a poet, a writer of tremendous talent cursed to have lived in the days of Stalin's totalitarianism. He wrote a poem about Stalin, reading it to perhaps six friends at a dinner. One of them was an informer. It …

Note: Mandelstam uses the term Aonides for the Muses, so called because their haunt of Mount Helicon was in Aonia an early name for Boeotia. (See Ovid Metamorphoses V333, and VI 2). The Antigone referred to may be the daughter of Laomedon turned into a bird, Ovid VI 93 says a stork, rather than Sophocles’s Antigone.

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