Osip Mandelstam

Part II

Information about Mandelstam after the Revolution comes from Anna Akhmatova: I often met Mandestam in 1917-18 when I lived on Vyborgskoy, at the doctor Sreznevsky’s apartment, my friend Valerie’s husband. Mandelstam usually came for me, and we rode together on the cart, drowned by horses in the unbelievable pits of that revolutionary winter, among the f…