sentences:  Mandelstam was said to have had an affair with the poet Anna Akhmatova.She insisted throughout her life that their relationship had always been a very deep friendship, rather than a sexual affair.In the 1910s, he was in love, secretly and unrequitedly, with a Georgian princess and St. Petersburg socialite Salomea Andronikova, to whom Mandelstam dedicated his poem "Solominka" (1916).