Ossip Mandelshtam was born on January 3, 1891 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Catalogue of Ships (2008) and An die Deutsche Sprache (2006). He was married to Nadezhda Khazina. He died on December 27, 1938 in Vladivostok, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Primorsky Krai, Russia].