Who is the second poet of Russia, if the place of the first poet is occupied forever?

Not so long ago was the anniversary of the great poet. 130 years since the birth of Osip Mandelstam. Therefore, many stars recalled his favorite poems and even recorded an entire music album. It's so amazing. Mandelstam.

Life vicissitudes of the great poet could easily become the basis for a good movie. His fate was full of suffering, love, hardship, loyalty of friends and like-minded people, music and the struggle against the Soviet system.

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Osip was born in Warsaw in 1891 in the family of a master of gloves. But the position of their father allowed them to live outside the Pale of Settlement, despite their origins. Meanwhile, in 1897 they moved to St. Petersburg.

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There, the boy did not study for long, after which he went to Europe for education. I managed to visit the best educational institutions in Germany and France. But in 1911, due to the ruin of the family, he returned to St. Petersburg.

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Further difficult times twisted the writer in the cycle of events. He became a master of the poetic word of the time. Therefore, he saw both the dungeons of the prisons of the Soviet regime and the applause of the Union of Writers of the USSR.

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Leonid Parfenov wrote on Facebook: “The place of the first poet in Russia is occupied forever, and lovers of the poem differ in who they consider the second.” I am one of those for whom Mandelstam is the second. ?

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However, he is not the only one who supported the flash mob for the 130th anniversary of the great poet. As a result, by this date, a music album with a 21st composition was recorded. From hip-hop stars to Ilya Lagutenko and Leonid Agutin, everyone paid homage to the great poet. The album is titled “Keep My Speech Forever” and is available online.

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Also called is a documentary dedicated to Osip Mandelstam. By the way, this name is chosen not for nothing, but in honor of the poem of the same name:

Save my speech forever for the taste of misery and smoke,
For the resin of circular patience, for the conscientious tar of labor.
As the water in the Novgorod wells should be black and sweet,
So that it will reflect seven fins of a star by Christmas.

And for this, my father, my friend and my helper,
I am an unrecognized brother, an outcast in the popular family.
I promise to build such heavy logs,
So that in them the Tatarva lowered the princes on the badya.

As long as they love me with these frozen stones,
How, aiming at death, towns strike in the garden
I've spent my whole life wearing an iron shirt.
And for the execution of Peter in the woods, I will find an axe.

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These are the wonderful lines written in 1931.

It is never too late to start reading the great poets and prose writers of the past. At the same time, in the classics it is easiest to find yourself, and it is most loudly reflected in the nooks of the soul. Write in the comments about your favorite poems by Mandelstam and your favorite poets.