Examples of use of OSIP
1. Polia was one of the few people who understood how strange Stalin was and could tease him about it: she always called him Oddball Osip – Osip being a diminutive of Josef.
2. Pasternak, he recalled, had with him a book of poems by Osip Mandelstam, "his close friend who died in the camps." "He makes an inspirational speech about his poetry and asks me to give the book to Feltrinelli," D‘Angelo wrote.
3. The building was the joint work of two architectural masters: Osip Bove, who masterminded the city‘s architectural renaissance after the 1812 fire and later designed the Bolshoi Theater, and Spanish engineer Agustin de Betancourt, who designed the 45–meter larch beams that stretched across the Manezh roof.
4. It had become a joke thanks to Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx and an international symbol of villainy thanks to Hitler‘s toothbrush and ‘the huge laughing cockroaches‘ under Stalin‘s nose — the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam paid with his life for coining this image.