The poetry of Osip Mandelstam here sounds not like dry school classics, but as a lively conversation about memory, freedom, and the fragility of the human voice. Participants analyze line by line, hear hidden rhythms, and apply his images to their own reading experiences, finding echoes of today’s anxieties and hopes in the poems. In the poetic workshop dedicated to the work of Osip Mandelstam, familiar lines from school anthologies suddenly sharpen and become personal experiences. Instead of a dry retelling of biography and analytical schemes, participants are invited to listen closely to the text, to observe intonations and pauses, and to notice how the mood changes from stanza to stanza. The conversation begins with several key poems but quickly shifts to how the poet felt about language, history, and his own time. The session is structured as a reading laboratory: participants do not passively listen to the lecturer but read the poems aloud, discuss individual lines, and argue about meanings and nuances of words. Commentators from the Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House help to see new accents in familiar images, tell about the context of Acmeism, and how poets of the same generation coexisted and debated with each other. Through such details, a vivid portrait of the author gradually emerges, for whom poetry was a way to exist in a world full of political and personal tension. Find other events in St. Petersburg on KudaGo.