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Osip Mandelstam - Exceptional poet of early twentieth century. Arrested for a biting poem written about Stalin, Mandelstam was incarcerated and underwent a long ordeal of interrogations and torture. However, throughout his life he continued to write poetry, until the very end. He died in the thirties, in Stalinist prison camps for his work.
Nadezhda Mandelstam -wife and widow of Osip Mandelshtam and author of Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, two autobiographical works in which she chronicles her life with Osip.
Vladimir Maximov - Dissident novelist with extreme views. Exiled in the latter half of this century.
Vladimir Mayakovsky -poet and playwright of vibrant, impassioned verse. Although he was a successful poet before the Revolution of 1917, he applauded the Bolsheviks and swiftly moved to support them. Until the early 1920's he wrote propaganda verse for them and painted innumerable posters for the Soviet government. However, as his work reveals, he became increasingly disillusioned with their legislation. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat had become the Dictatorship Over Everyone. His late work illustrates his frustration and fury with the cause he had so ardently fought for. By the end of his life Mayakovsky had completely disowned the Bolsheviks. In 1930 he commited suicide.Small Biography Here.
Boris Mozhayev -playwright
Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov -children's writer, also playwright who authored "Balalaikin and Company"
