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
I noticed on the card that his wife’s name was Nadezhda, and remarked that the only other time I had seen that name in print was on the books I had read by Nadezhda Mandelstam.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 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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