Osip Mandelstam
Russian poet whose dense, allusive Acmeist verse made him one of the masters of modern poetry. He died in a Stalinist transit camp after writing a satire of Stalin.
Works
- StoneEarly verse collection establishing modernist aesthetic grounded in classical sources
- TristiaPoetry employing classical allusions and fragmentation amid historical upheaval
- Moscow NotebooksProse poetry and notebooks written during imprisonment and exile
- Voronezh NotebooksPoetic notebooks documenting survival and artistic resistance under Soviet oppression
- The Noise of TimeProse memoir evoking Russian cultural history, memory, and personal loss