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Osip Mandelstam was born in Warsaw, Poland and grew up in St.Petersburg, Russia Mandelstam was taught by tutors and governesses at his home. He attended the prestigious Tenishev School from 1900 to 1907 and traveled then to Paris from 1907 to 1908 and Germany from 1908 to 1910, where he studied Old French literature at the University of Heidelberg. In 1911 till 1917, he studied philosophy at St. Petersburg University but did not graduate. Mandelstam was a member of the 'Poets Guild' from 1911 and had close personal ties with Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilev. His first poems appeared in 1910 in the journal Apollon. In 1918 he worked briefly for Anatoly Lunacharskii's Education Ministry in Moskow. In the 1920s Mandelstam supported himself by writing children's books and translating works by Upton Sinclair, Jules Romains, Charles de Coster and others. He did not compose poems from 1925 to 1930 but turned to prose. In 1930 he made a trip to Armenia to escape his influential enemies. Mandelstam's Journey to Armenia (1933) became his last major work published during his life time. Mandelstam was arrested the first time in 1934 for an epigram he had written on Joseph Stalin. In the transit camp, Mandelstam was already so weak that he couldn't stand. He died in the Gulag Archipelago in Vtoraia rechka, near Vladivostok, on December 27, 1938.His body was taken to a common grave. International fame came to Mandelstam in the 1970s, when his works were published in the West and in the Soviet Union. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Selected Poems… (more)
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Osip Mandelstam was born to a prosperous Jewish family in Warsaw, and grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia. He received his early education from tutors and governesses at home, and attended the prestigious Tenishev School from 1900 to 1907. Continuing his education abroad, he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the the University of Heidelberg in Germany. From 1911 to 1917, he studied philosophy at the University of St. Petersburg, something rarely permitted for Jews. Mandelstam gave up his studies to become a poet, and began publishing in the literary journal Apollon. His first collection, Kamen (Stone), appeared in 1913. In the 1920s, as the Bolsheviks began to exert power over Russian artists, it became increasingly difficult for Mandelstam, a nonconformist, to maintain himself as a poet. He also wrote children's books and translated works by Upton Sinclair, Jules Romains, Charles de Coster, and others. In 1930, he made a trip to Armenia, which provided material for his book Journey to Armenia (1933), the last major work he published during his lifetime. He was arrested the first time in 1934 for a poem he had written on Joseph Stalin, tortured, and exiled to the Ural Mountains. Arrested again in 1938, he was sentenced to forced labor, and arrived at the Vtoraia Rechka transit camp, near Vladivostok, in very poor health. He died there shortly afterwards. Mandelstam achieved international fame in the 1970s, when his works were published in the West as well as in the Soviet Union thanks to the efforts of his wife Nadezhda Mandelstam, who also wrote two memoirs about their lives together, Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974).
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