We Shall Meet Again in Petersburg (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Osip Mandelstam
- First Published: 1922
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Revolutions, 1920’s, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Russian Revolution
The Poem
Osip Mandelstam wrote “We Shall Meet Again in Petersburg” in 1920 and published it in his collection Tristia in 1922. In the title, the persona addresses unnamed friends, vowing to meet them again in Petersburg, a former capital of Russia. (Originally Saint Petersburg, the city was renamed Petrograd during World War I, Leningrad after Lenin’s death, and Saint Petersburg again in the 1990’s; popularly, it has always been known as Petersburg.) Mandelstam spent the best years of his youth in Petersburg, publishing his first poems there and making several...
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