Osip Mandelstam Quote

We live, deaf to the land beneath us,
Ten steps away no one hears our speeches,
But where there's so much as half a conversation The Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention.


Stalin (1934), st. 1, 2


We live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches, But where there's so much as half a conversation The Kremlin's...

We live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches, But where there's so much as half a conversation The Kremlin's...

We live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches, But where there's so much as half a conversation The Kremlin's...

We live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches, But where there's so much as half a conversation The Kremlin's...