Nadezhda Mandelstam

Nadezhda Mandelstam, 1925 Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Russian: Наде́жда Я́ковлевна Мандельшта́м, IPA: [nɐˈdʲeʐdə ˈjakəvlʲɪvnə məndʲɪlʲˈʂtam]; 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1899 – 29 December 1980) was a Russian writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia. She wrote two memoirs about their lives together and the repressive Stalinist regime.