by Osip Mandelstam
Sevanavank monastery on an island in Sevan Lake, Armenia In 1930 Osip Mandelstam was deep in the bouillabaisse - only Bukharin's protection held the Soviet authorities off of him, a vindictive bureaucrat was taxing him for plagiarism, and his internal sources of poetic inspiration had been dry f...
One of the most poetic books I've ever read.Short and pleasant as a sip of a precious nectar.At first I was a little bit disappointed by having found not a travel book through Armenia as I was looking for. But then I didn't care of this lack of factual comments on places and I've been completely ble...
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