Osip Mandelstam

Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

January 14, 1891

Died

December 27, 1938 (47 years old)

Also Known As

  • Osip Mandelshtam

Osip Mandelstam

Biography

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school. Osip Mandelstam was arrested during the repressions of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife, Nadezhda Mandelstam. Given a reprieve of sorts, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia.

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