“Mandelstam did not listen to me. He listened, heard, but did not listen. This is my tragedy "
Sergei Magid once belonged to the Leningrad "Second Culture"-he printed poems in Samizdat, was a member of the "Club 81". In 1990, he left the USSR, now he lives in Prague. Just in the Aquarius publishing house, his new poetic book was published - “The second centurion. About the insult of the soul, ”and she is dedicated to Osip Mandelstam. About the loneliness of the poet, insulting the soul, escape, suicide and "Odda" Sergey Magid told Evgeny Kogan to Stalin.