About the book: 2012 / OAVaxel (1903–1932) is one of the heroines of the biography of O.E. Mandelstam. By giving the floor to the addressee of the poet’s four poems, the book makes it possible to look at some episodes of his life from a new perspective. This edition is the most complete publication of O. Vaksel’s archive. Her poems and memoirs speak of a gifted and bright woman, of a short but unusually rich life. These texts tell not only a personal story, but a history of time and preserve many details, faces and names. The publication is equipped with comments, which use notes and memoirs of A.A. Smolevsky, son of O.A. Vaksel. For specialists, students, graduate students, as well as for a wide range of readers.