Roald Mandelstam

Roald Charlesovich Mandelstam (; – ) was a Russian poet and writer. He was born in Leningrad and lived there during the Soviet era.

Mandelstam’s patronymic name appears as "Charlesovich" in his birth and death records, but it is inscribed as "Charlzovich" on his gravestone.

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. His poetry was first published in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

In the late 1950s his health rapidly deteriorated, he had to be treated in hospitals repeatedly.

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