Mandelstam
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noun
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Nadezhda ( Yakovlevna ) (næˈdɛʃdə), born Nadezhda Khazina. 1899–1980, Soviet writer, wife of Osip Mandelstam: noted for her memoirs Hope against Hope (1971) and Hope Abandoned (1973) describing life in Stalin's Russia
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Osip ( Emilyevich ) (ˈɒsiːp). 1891–?1938, Soviet poet and writer, born in Warsaw; he was persecuted by Stalin and died in a labour camp. His works include Tristia (1922), Poems (1928), and the autobiographical Journey to Armenia (1933)
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On the dissident side are the classics: Pasternak, Brodsky, Mandelstam, Solzhenitsyn.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023
Peter Mandelstam, the chief operating officer of Enchant, said carbon capture could reduce the plant’s emissions by 90 percent, enabling it to comply with the state’s climate rules.
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2020
Enchant Energy Chief Operating Officer Peter Mandelstam agreed with Fallgren’s assertion that the meeting covered preliminary discussions.
From Washington Times • Feb. 15, 2020
Meanwhile Mandelstam is on camera, eating lunch and taking a bathroom break, a flesh-and-blood scholar whose actual life is elided from the film—as is Josh’s own.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2015
Think Mandelstam on his hell-train, shuddering with fever, dying of a line in a poem.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2012
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