Vladivostok and Magadan. The circumstances of his death and its date are uncertain; the registered date of 1944 is in all likelihood invented. He was likely either summarily shot in 1938, or drowned with a group of prisoners in sealed barge in the Arctic Ocean (according to Nadezhda Mandelshtam). A translation of Narbut's poem "Portrait" appears in the anthology Modern Russian Poetry,'' ed. Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks (Bobbs Merrill, 1967). References Sources Brief biography of Narbut in Russian External links Вадим Беспрозванный; Анна Ахматова - Владимир Нарбут: к проблеме литературного диалога Two poems in English translation, "Seance" (1913) and part 1 of "Seventeenth" (1918) in the New England Review 1888 births 1938 deaths People from Sumy Oblast People from Glukhovsky Uyezd Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Ukrinform people Russian people of Ukrainian descent Russian male poets Russian poets of Ukrainian descent Russian people of Polish descent 20th-century Russian poets 20th-century Russian male writers