We live under us without feeling the country... Mandelstam O.

Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938)-one of the most significant Russian poets of the Streal Age. His poems were first published when he was only nineteen years old, and in forty -seven he died in a transit camp on the way to Kolyma. Twenty years of official oblivion, the gradual return of Mandelstam’s poetry readers began.

“To exist - the highest pride of the artist. He does not want another paradise, except for being, ”Osip Mandelstam wrote. The great poet, who changed the very structure of the Russian language, like no one else, managed to feel the air of a cruel era, that “wolfhound century”, who led the poet to death in the transit point of Dalstroy in Vladivostok. But before the Stalinist repressions there was a silver age and Petersburg, the First World War and the Revolution: “The noise of time”, from which the spirit of Osip Mandelstam is the art of a master, organically connected with a word, a harsh and strict artisan.