Roald Mandelstam

Roald Charlesovich Mandelstam (Роа́льд Ча́рльсович Мандельшта́м; September 16, 1932, Leningrad - February 26, 1961, Leningrad) was a Russian poet.

Biography
Born in Leningrad, September 16, 1932.

He studied at the Polytechnic Institute, then at the Faculty of Oriental Studies Saint Petersburg State University. He did not finish his education; because of the severe form of tuberculosis he could not work anywhere else and almost never left the house.

In 1954 he married the poet Nina Markevich (1931-1992).

Repeatedly he tried to publish his poems, but had his lifetime publications.

In the late 1950s he experienced persistent acute illness, repeatedly lying in the hospital.

On January 26, 1961 he died in the hospital from a hemorrhage and was buried in the Krasnenkoye Cemetery in Leningrad.