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Tverskoy Bul'var 25
Тверской Бульвар 25
(Maxim Gorki Literature Inst. - Литературный инст. им А.М. Горького)

Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам

Ossip Mandelstamm

Warsaw 1891 - transit camp Vtoraya Rechka near Vladivostok 1938
Russian poet and essayist
(Wikipedia)

D.M. Shakhovskiy
1991

Moscow - Москва / Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам

Description

Granite commemorative plaque with silhouet.

Inscription(s)

РОЕТ

осип
эмильевич
мандельштам

жил в этом доме
в 1922 - 1923 и
в 1932 - 1933 годах

The Poet

Osip
Emil'yevich
Mandel'shtam

lived in this house
in 1922 - 1923 and
in 1932 - 1933

Annotation

Unveiled 15 January 1991 on the initiative of the Commission on the literary heritage of O. Mandelstamm in the Soviet Union and the Literary Institute Maxim Gorky.

Tverskoy Bul'var 25 - Тверской Бульвар 25

The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute - Литературный институт имени А. М. Горького
Higher education institute in Moscow, founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, and received the current name at Gorky's death in 1936. The building is known as the Herzen House - Дом Герцена. In the garden is a statue of Herzen, and on the building are commemorative plaques for Platonov, Mandelstamm and Andreyev.

Artist

D.M. Shakhovskiy - Д.М. Шаховский, Russian sculptor.

Sources & Information

Narod.ru, Страницы сайта поэта Иосифа Бродского (1940-1996).
Clow.ru, Монументальная летопись, file 62.

Location (N 55°45'45" - E 37°36'7") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ru083; Photograph: 10 July 2011
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