Osip Mandelstam

For other articles using the same surname, see Mandelstam.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Emilyevich and the family name is Mandelstam.
Osip Mandelstam
Mandelstam in the 1930s
Mandelstam in the 1930s
Native name
Осип Мандельштам
BornOsip Emilyevich Mandelstam
14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1891
Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died27 December 1938(1938-12-27) (aged 47)
Transit Camp "Vtoraya Rechka" (near Vladivostok), Soviet Union
OccupationPoet, writer, essayist, translator
Literary movementAcmeist poetry, modernism
Notable works
  • Stone
  • The Noise Of Time
  • The Egyptian Stamp
  • The Fourth Prose
  • Voronezh Notebooks
Signature

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam[1] (Russian: Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам, IPA: [ˈosʲɪp ɨˈmʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam]; 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1891 – 27 December 1938) 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. In 1938, Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to five years in a corrective-labour camp in the Soviet Far East. He died that year at a transit camp near Vladivostok.[2]

  1. ^ Also romanized as Osip Mandelstam, Ossip Mandelstamm, or Osip Mandelshtam
  2. ^ Delgado, Yolanda; RIR, specially for (18 July 2014). "The final days of Russian writers: Osip Mandelstam". www.rbth.com. Retrieved 8 June 2020.