Osip Mandelstam is a brilliant Russian poet who had a unique sense of language, the primacy of which among poets was recognized by Anna Akhmatova; author of exquisite prose, translator. “For a quarter of a century now, I, mixing important things with trifles, have been floating on Russian poetry, but soon my poems will merge with it, changing something in its structure and composition,” wrote O. Mandelstam about his poetic credo. And he turned out to be right, forever leaving an inimitable mark on the history of Russian versification and literature. Anyone who has ever heard or read the works of Mandelstam remains forever mesmerized by the magic of his words.