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Nadezhda Mandelstam

Russian writer and educator.

Born November 11th, 1899 in Saratov.

Died December 29th, 1980 at 81 years old in Moscow.

Occupations
biographer, lecturer, linguist, memoirist, poet, teacher, writer

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. William Faulkner