question

[John Mackay]

Dear SEELangers: Here's a question almost completely unrelated to smoking
and Cyrillic -- does anyone know whether the philosopher Gustav Shpet
(1879-1937) and the poet Osip Mandelshtam knew or even might have known
one another? I know that their stays in Moscow overlapped (in the
'20s-early 30s), but I'm esp. interested in the possibility of any contact
later on, i.e, from 1935-37. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best,
John