Osip Mandelshtam and the Literary Society “Literatuturnyi Osobniak” (“The Literary Mansion”) (Based on archival documents)

Abstract

The article discusses Osip Mandelshtam’s participation in the work of the Moscow literary society “Literatuturnyi Osobniak” (“The Literary Mansion”). Previously unpublished documents from the archive of the poet Nikolai Zakharov-Mensky and a description of Mandelshtam’s poetry evening from the diary of the poet Taras Machtet are quoted and analyzed.

Keywords

• “literaturnyi osobniak” (“the literary mansion”)
• minutes from the meetings
• osip mandelshtam
• poet nikolai zakharov-mensky
• poet taras machtet’s diary
• literary environment