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PD (?) See also Poems.[1]

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

1. ↑ "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.