Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (, née Khazina; 29 December 1980) was a
Russian writer and educator, and the wife of the poet
Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the
gulag of
Siberia. She wrote two memoirs about their lives together and the repressive
Stalinist regime:
Hope Against Hope (1970) and
Hope Abandoned (1974), both first published in the west in English, translated by
Max Hayward.