The Necklace
A poem for Sunday, published in <em>The Atlantic</em> in 2012
by Osip Mandelstam
Apr 10, 2022
1 minute
Illustrations by Miki Lowe
When the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam published his collection in 1922, the Bolshevik government had begun to tighten its grip on artists, pressuring them to use their talent for propaganda. Though
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