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- Birth nameOsip Emilyevich Mandelstam
- Ossip Mandelshtam was born on January 3, 1891 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Message from the Future (1989), Catalogue of Ships (2008) and An die Deutsche Sprache (2006). He was married to Nadezhda Khazina. He died on December 27, 1938 in Vladivostok, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Primorsky Krai, Russia].
- SpouseNadezhda Khazina(1922 - December 27, 1938) (his death)
- RelativesYevgeniy Mandelstam(Sibling)
- Speed, the pace of the present, cannot be measured by subways or skyscrapers, but only by the cheerful grass thrusting itself forth from under city stones.
- We live, but we do not feel the land beneath us / Ten steps away and our words cannot be heard.
- Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?
- Classical poetry is the poetry of revolution.
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