Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam was born in 1891 and grew up in St Petersburg. With Akhmatova and Gumilyov he formed the Acmeist movement. In 1938 he was re-arrested and sentenced to five years' hard labour for 'counter-revolutionary activities', and died that winter, of 'heart failure', in a freezing transit camp in Siberia.