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Osip Mandelstam

Died in 1938

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), born in Warsaw into a Jewish family, the son of a leather merchant, was brought up in Saint Petersburg at the Tenishev School, then studied at the Sorbonne, at Heidelberg and at the University of Saint Petersburg. He was one of the leading poets of Acmeism. In the autumn of 1933 he composed an epigram against Stalin; arrested in May 1934, he was exiled to Voronezh. Arrested again in 1938, he died on 27 December of the same year in a transit camp near Vladivostok.

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