Osip Mandelstam
Russian poet, essayist, political prisoner
Died when: 47 years 346 days (575 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (Russian: ???? ????????? ???????????, IPA: ['os??p ?'m?il?j?v??t? m?n?d??l?'?tam]; 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet.
He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school. Osip Mandelstam was arrested during the repression of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife, Nadezhda Mandelstam.
Given a reprieve of sorts, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia. In 1938 Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to five years in a corrective-labour camp in the Soviet Far East.
He died that year at a transit camp near Vladivostok.
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