About the book: 2009 / A poet of tragic fate, O. Mandelstam himself did not consider himself a tragic poet. He has landscape and love lyrics, painted in the most delicate watercolor tones, there are poems permeated with light “St. Petersburg” humor, but there are also poems about the suppression of man by the state that reach a high dramatic intensity (and the poet speaks with equal hostility about both pre-revolutionary and Bolshevik Russia). For him, the only measure and reference point is man, who is a kind of highest embodiment of Nature and History. This idea runs through the poet’s entire work. The book presents the most complete corpus of O. Mandelstam's poems. Extensive commentary will help you enter the complex world created by one of the most famous poets of the Silver Age.