Concert at a Railway Station

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He was the husband of Nadezhda Mandelstam and a leading member of the Acmeist school of poets. He was arrested by Joseph Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife Nadezhda. Given a kind of reprieve, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia for a more comfortable exile. In 1938 Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to a Siberian labour camp. He died that year at a transit camp.