Osip Mandelstam Writer

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (Russian: О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м; IPA: [ˈosʲɪp ɪˈmʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ məndʲɪlʲˈʂtam]; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets. He was arrested by Joseph Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife Nadezhda. Given a reprieve of sorts, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia. In 1938 Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to a camp in Siberia. He died that year at a transit camp.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Mandelshtam Osip Emilyevich; О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м (Russian)
Birth date	January 15, 1891
Birth name	Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam
Birth place	Warsaw , Russian Empire , Congress Poland
Date of death	December 27, 1938
Place of death	Gulag , Soviet Union