Mandelstam, Osip Emilevich (1891–1938)

Russian poet. He was a leader of the Acmeist movement. The son of a Jewish merchant, he was sent to a concentration camp by the communist authorities in the 1930s, and died there. His posthumously published work, with its classic brevity, established his reputation as one of the greatest 20th-century Russian poets.

His wife Nadezhda's memoirs of her life with her husband, Hope Against Hope, were published in the West 1970, but not until 1988 in the USSR.