The Centuries Surround Me with Fire, Osip Mandelstam
The Great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in one of Stalin’s concentration camps. The writer Andrei Sinyavsky, himself an exile, talks about Mandelstam’s wife Nadeshda, recites Mandelstam’s poems, and discusses Mandelstam’s position in Russian literature.