Mandelstam
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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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Enchant Energy Chief Operating Officer Peter Mandelstam agreed with Fallgren’s assertion that the meeting covered preliminary discussions.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 15, 2020
He calls on an ensemble of writers, poets, witnesses and visionaries — Anton Chekhov, Vasily Grossman, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam — to ground the story.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2018
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
He had begun laboriously typing out columns of text by Kafka, Yeats, Osip Mandelstam and other writers on fabric, using a manual typewriter.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2012
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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