The one who found a horseshoe

Author: Mandelstam O.E., “The One Who Found a Horseshoe”: Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891–1938) was one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, as well as a prose writer, translator, essayist, critic, and literary scholar. Mandelstam’s poetry achieved international fame before and independently of publications in the Soviet Union: his poems and articles on issues of history and culture were published abroad. Vladimir Nabokov, for example, called Mandelstam “the only poet of Stalin’s Russia.” In 1933, he was arrested and exiled for the first time for a political epigram, and died in custody after a second arrest. The collection includes poems by Osip Mandelstam written between 1908 and 1937, which comprise the collections “Stone,” “TRISTIA,” “Poems 1921–1925,” “New Verse,” “Voronezh Notebooks,” and “After Voronezh.”