Monument to Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam in Amsterdam

Nadezjda Mandelstam Street 16, 1102 JK Amsterdam, Netherlands

On September 25, 2015, a monument to Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam was unveiled in Amsterdam. This is the sixth monument to the poet in the world and the first outside Russia.

On September 25, 2015, a monument to Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam was unveiled in Amsterdam. It is the sixth monument to the poet in the world and the first outside Russia.

It is installed opposite house number 16 on Nadezhda Mandelstam Street (Nadezjda Mandelstamstraat), which has existed in the capital of the Netherlands since 2001. The authors of the sculptural composition titled "Monument to Love" are sculptor Hanneke de Munck and artist Sitze Becker from Amsterdam, while the pedestal with verses is the work of Russian sculptor Khachatur Bely.

The same monument was installed in May 2010 in the Sculpture Garden in the university courtyard on Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg.

About 150 people gathered for the unveiling of the monument in Amsterdam. Local school students read and listened to Mandelstam’s poems, a young actress presented a composition of poems and memoirs, the monument’s creators spoke, as did Dutch and Russian philologists and representatives of the local authorities.

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