Mandelstam O. Kamen. The first book of poems.

Mandelstam O. Kamen. The first book of poems.
M.-L. Publishing House. 1923, p. 95 Hardcover with original cover. 13, 5 x 18 cm. Mandelstam's lifetime edition. On the first page, the owner's autograph of E. Mindlin. R.

Emiliy Lvovich Mindlin (12 (25) may 1900, Alexandrovsk, Ekaterinoslav province, now Zaporozhye — between 25 may and 5 August 1981, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet writer.

He studied at the gymnasium in Aleksandrovsk. Published since 1914. He was acquainted with the poet Vadim Bayan, who also lived in Aleksandrovsk since 1917.

From 1919 to 1921, he lived in Feodosia, participated in the Feodosian literary and artistic circle (FLAK). He called M. Voloshin his teacher in literature. A poem by M. Tsvetaeva is addressed to Mindlin.

After being expelled from the Crimea, the white guard left for Moscow (1921).

Collaborated in periodicals, Newspapers "on the Eve", "Evening Moscow" (from its first issue, that is, from December 6, 1923), " Leningradskaya Pravda", the magazine" Ogonek " (since its re-creation in 1923). He went on business trips on editorial assignments, survived the flood in Leningrad on September 23, 1924. In 1925, he received an apartment in Moscow and moved his family from Leningrad.

Member of the rescue expedition on the icebreaker "Krasin" victims of the disaster on the airship "Italy" members of the Arctic expedition of Umberto Nobile (1928).

With the beginning of the great Patriotic war, together with other writers, he was mobilized for radio propaganda. When he returned to Moscow, he worked at the Central children's theater and was in charge of the literary section.

In 1955, he was arrested and convicted for anti-Soviet statements, since 1956 - in ITU. He was rehabilitated in 1971.

He wrote about the socialist construction in the USSR, as well as works for children, articles about literature and theater, and memoirs.