Question: Were Iain Banks and Osip Mandelstam from the same country?

Context articles: Yevgeny S. Levitin
Salomea Andronikova
Omry Ronen
Iain Banks
Osip Mandelstam
Bukhara magazine
Stalin Epigram
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Larisa Novoseltseva
Anthem (Steve Lacy album)

Yevgeny S. Levitin (1930-1998) - art historian.
 He worked at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
 Author of the book "Modern graphics capitalist countries of Europe and America" (Wiley, 1959).
 Levitin also compiled catalogs of exhibitions of contemporary artists of Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico and other countries.
 He created the catalog "Lenin Prize winner, People's Artist of the USSR Vladimir Favorsky" (Wiley, 1964), prepared album "Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, 1606-1669 and“Etchings" (L., 1972).
 As well as albums dedicated to Western European drawings from Museum funds.
 Levitin prepared an exhibition dedicated to Boris Pasternak (see Pasternak .
: World / Comp Levitin M. et al., 1989.)
 As well as the edition: Pasternak “Not I write poetry ...” Levitin also translated from foreign languages into Russian.
 Nadezhda Mandelstam wrote about Levitin (without mentioning his name) as a "first messenger revival of the intelligentsia, which awakens, rewriting and reading poetry" (Mandelstam NY Memories M., 1999, pp 396.; cm.
 and c. 391-393).
 In her will Nadezhda Mandelstam mentioned Levitin among future guardians of Osip Mandelstam archive.
 Levitin died in Jerusalem.
Salomea Nikolayevna Andronikova (Russian: Саломея Николаевна Андроникова ) (also known as Salomea Ivanovna Andronikova), born Salome Andronikashvili (Georgian: სალომე ანდრონიკაშვილი ) (October 1888 – May 8, 1982) was a Georgian-Russian socialite of the literary and artistic world of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg.
 A friend of the poets Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam, her physical and intellectual charms were celebrated in their poetry and inspired other writers such as Grigol Robakidze and Ilia Zdanevich, as well as the artists Boris Grigoriev, Alexandre Jacovleff and Zinaida Serebriakova.
 In exile she lived in Georgia (1917-1919), France (1919-1940), the United States of America (1940-1947) and Britain (1947-1982).
Omry Ronen (born Imre Szörényi) (July 12, 1937, Odessa – November 1, 2012, Ann Arbor) was an American Slavist, known for his works on the Silver Age of Russian Poetry and especially on the poetry of Osip Mandelstam.
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author.
 He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies ( ).
Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam (Russian: О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м ; ] ; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Polish-Jewish poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union.
 He was the husband of Nadezhda Mandelshtam and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.
 He was arrested by Joseph Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife Nadezhda.
 Given a reprieve of sorts, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia.
 In 1938 Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to a camp in Siberia.
 He died that year at a transit camp.
Bukhara magazine is a Persian-language magazine published in Tehran and published and edited by Ali Dehbashi.
 The magazine began publication in 1998 and is published on a monthly basis.
 Its aim is publishing scholarly articles about Persian history, art, philosophy, literature, culture, and Iranology.
 It published some special issues about great world authors such as Rabindranath Tagore, Günter Grass, Osip Mandelstam, Umberto Eco and Virginia Woolf.
The Stalin epigram, also known as The Kremlin Highlander (Russian: Кремлёвский горец ) is a satirical poem by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, written in November 1933.
 The poem describes the climate of fear in the Soviet Union.
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Russian: Наде́жда Я́ковлевна Мандельшта́м ; ] ; 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1899 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.
Larisa Novoseltseva (Russian: Лариса Новосельцева ) is a Russian singer-songwriter, composer, performer of Russian and Ukrainian folk songs and romances, and creator of project "Return of the Silver Age".
 She is author of music and performer of songs and ballads on poems by more than forty Russian poets, mostly of the Silver Age, such as Osip Mandelstam, Nikolay Gumilev, Boris Pasternak,Marina Tsvetaeva, Maksimilian Voloshin, Konstantin Balmont, Alexander Vertinsky and many others, including Bella Akhmadulina who, according to Novoseltseva, can be viewed as the last poet of Silver Age based on her poetic language and style.
 Novoseltseva created more than 300 songs and published more than 20 music albums.
 She usually performs solo using guitar or piano for the accompaniment.
 More recently, she frequently appears with violinist Michael Czerwinski
Anthem is an album by Steve Lacy released on the Arista Novus label in 1990.
 It features five of Lacy's compositions (and one by Jean-Jacques Avenel) with texts by Osip Mandelstam and Mary Frazee performed by Lacy, Bobby Few, Steve Potts, Jean-Jacques Avenel, John Betsh, Sam Kelly, Glenn Ferris, La Velle and Irene Aebi.