Osip Mandelstam

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Age: 26

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Occupation: poet

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Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Osip Mandelstam

4, Pesochnaya Street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

11.01.18

At moment’s blooming I was not then questing,
Cassandra, for your lips, Cassandra, for your eyes,
But we’re December’s solemn wait digesting –
We’re hounded by our memories’ lies.

In 1917 in mid-December
We find we’ve lost love and it all;
The people’s will will some of us dismember,
And others hold themselves to wall.

And time will come in city’s madness
Amidst some Scythian orgy on the river bank
And in the dancing din and out of badness
From lovely head they’ll grab scarf with a yank.

If necessary madness is our mortal meaning
And high constructions make an ocean full of trees,
I fell for you, disarming victory’s overweening
And plague is borne by winter breeze.

And on the square I see a fellow,
Amidst the armoured cars he scares
The wolves, as chucking burning blocks he issues bellow
That freedom, law and right are theirs.

O sick and silent, dear Cassandra,
To understand this can’t be done.
Oh why shone sun of Alexander
A hundred years ago on everyone?

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Osip Mandelstam

4, Pesochnaya Street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

30.12.17

Your fabulous enunciation,
Like whistling of a bird of prey,
Creates a true representation
Of silken eyelids, I dare say. See more

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Anna Akhmatova

Sreznevskikh's ap., 9, Botkinskaya, Petrograd, Russian Republic

30.12.17

Mandelstam often visited me, and we rode in a cab on the incredible bumps of the revolutionary winter among the famous fires that burned almost until May, listening to a rifle rumbling from an unknown place. So we went to the Academy of Arts, where were evenings in favor of the wounded and where we both performed several times.

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Anna Akhmatova

Petrograd, Russian Republic

29.12.17

is attending an event at the Union of the People of Art

Also going: Bely, Blok, Sologub, Ivnev, Yesenin, Kuzmin, Mandelstam, Teffi.

Osip Mandelstam

4, Pesochnaya Street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

28.12.17

When on the squares and in solitary silence
We slowly go out of our minds,
Brutal winter will offer us
Cold and clear Rhine wine. See more

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Sergei Yesenin

2, Panteleymonovskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

27.12.17

is reading poetry at the Dekabrist Memorial Night

Also going: Blok, Akhmatova, Sologub, Teffi, Ivnev, ZamyatinMarine engineer, writer, Mandelstam.

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Osip Mandelstam

24.10.17

has returned to Petrograd from Feodosia

Osip Mandelstam

Alushta, Crimea, Russian Empire

24.08.17

The stream of golden honey poured, so viscous,
slow from the bottle, our hostess had time to murmur:
‘Here, in sad Tauris, where fate has brought us,
we shan’t be too bored’ – glancing over her shoulder. See more

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Osip Mandelstam

Petrograd, Russian Empire

21.07.17

Overwhelming swarms of human locusts that came from nowhere covered the banks of Fontanka, pasted itself all over fish markets, barges carrying wood, over quays, marble gangways and even boats of Ladoga potters.

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Age: 26

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Occupation: poet

Friends

Nikolay Gumilyov

Maximilian Voloshin

Marina Tsvetaeva

Anna Akhmatova

Sergei Yesenin