Zemnai︠a︡ zhiznʹ : kantata dli︠a︡ soprano i kamernogo ansambli︠a︡ / Elena Firsova ; stikhi Osipa Mandeʹlshchtama. 1984.

Firsova, Elena, 1950-

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Mandelʹshtam, Osip, 1891-1938

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Osip Mandelshtam was a Russian poet, novelist, essayist and critic. A member of the Guild of Poets, a radical faction of the acmeist movement in poetry, he criticized the literary conformity demanded by Russia's new communist government. In 1918, he narrowly escpaed execution after destroying a stack of death warrants belonging to a government official. In 1934, Mandelshtam was arrested after reading an anti-Stalin poem to a group of friends, one of whom informed on him....