This decision was taken by the City Council's commission, not mentioning, however, the timing of its implementation. A memorial tablet should appear in the heart of Kiev - on the facade of the house along Maria Zankovetskaya Street, 3/1, where the Mandelstam spouses stopped in the 1920s. Kiev for the great poet - a landmark city. It is here in the famous cafe X. (Artists-Literators-Artists-Musicians) May 1, 1919, a 20-year-old artist Nadia Khazina met 29-year-old Osip Mandelstam, who soon became her husband. In May 1926, Osip Emilevich wrote an essay "Kiev", subtly catching the "Jewish" intonations of the then city. Excerpts from this small work we offer today to your attention: The most durable city of Ukraine. Stand chestnuts in candles - pink-yellow, clapper-sultans. Young ladies in contraband silk jackets. Pogrom linden fluff in the nervous May air. Eyelid big-eyed children. Street cobbler works under the lindens cheerfully and rhythmically. The old "molocharni", where the northern aliens were seized by the yogurt and puffs of the thunder of Petliura guns, are still in the field. They still remember the last Kiev snob who walked on Khreshchatyk on panic days in lacquered boat shoes and with a plaid rug, talking in the most polite bird language. And remember Grishenka Rabinovich, a billiard sweeper from the St. Petersburg cafe "Reuters", who happened to become the head of the criminal investigation and police for a moment.