Osip Mandelstam | |
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Native name | Осип Мандельштам |
Born | Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1891 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire |
Died | 27 December 1938 Transit Camp "Vtoraya Rechka" (near Vladivostok), Soviet Union | (aged 47)
Occupation | Poet, writer, essayist, translator |
Literary movement | Acmeist poetry, modernism |
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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]