The Egyptian Stamp

The edition contains the story “The Egyptian Stamp” (1928) by the brilliant Russian poet Osip Emilievich Mandelstam. (1891–1938).

This is the writer’s final autobiographical work. Osip Mandelstam’s prose belongs to the heights of Russian refined writing.

A small man in the whirlpool of revolution. An intellectual—small, timid, poor—tries to stop in the summer of 1917 the mob’s brutal lynching of a pickpocket. It’s terrifying, but there’s nowhere to go— conscience…

This masterpiece of vivid intellectual prose develops the classic theme of Pushkin’s and Gogol’s Petersburg.