Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was one of the greatest poets of the Silver Age of Russian poetry. He died under mysterious circumstances in a Gulag camp in the Far East. We look back at his life to ...

One of the greatest Russian poets of the Silver Age, Osip Mandelstam, lived and wrote without buckling to the pressure to conform. He died of exhaustion and heart failure in a Siberian camp. In ...

There are several translations of Osip Mandelstam's "Stalin Epigram," a poem that mocked a tyrant who, like all tyrants, could not bear mockery. One of the more popular among them, a joint effort by ...

I mentioned in a recent column Eric Griffiths' recommendation of an "incomparable" essay by Osip Mandelstam, "Conversation on Dante," which I was resolved soon to read. This, it turns out, is easy to ...

Osip Mandelstam was born in 1891 and spent his childhood and youth in St. Petersburg. A victim of Stalinist repression, he died in 1938 in transit to a remote Siberian concentration camp. Mandelstam ...

Mandelstam was never to see his later poetry in print, and although a heavily censored version of his Journey to Armenia appeared in 1933, it proved to be the last significant publication of his life.

Our fractured age’s greatest heroes are a far cry from Achilles. They fight not for glory but freedom, with weapons forged of pure moral steel. Consider the fatalistic courage of the late Russian ...

A poem about the most beautiful city in the world, and an example of the precise demands of translation The Admiralty In the Northern capital, dusty populus, Sighing, mantles the time’s transparency, ...