Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam

January 15, 1891 – December 27, 1938
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Place of Death: Transit Camp "Vtoraya Rechka" (near Vladivostok), USSR

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (; 15 January 1891 3 January} – 27 December 1938) was a Russian Jewish poet and essayist. He was the husband of Nadezhda Mandelstam and 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.