Tristia

Tristia by Osip Mandelstam

"Tristia" is the title of Mandelstam's second book of poems composed between 1915 and 1922. It was first published in 1922 (Petropolis, St Petersburg-Berlin), then in 1923, and 1928. In Russian: Tristia

The cover of the first edition of "Tristia" (Petropolis, St Petersburg-Berlin, 1922), designed by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.

Contents:

• Sisters heaviness and tenderness – your signs are the same 1920
• Into the circling choral dance of shadows that trampled the soft meadow 1920

Notes

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Original:	This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1938, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
Translation:	This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.