Joseph Brodsky and His Family

Joseph Brodsky is a legend of the 20th century. Eight grades of education and a career as a university professor, exile to the North and the Nobel Prize in Literature, love for his native Leningrad and emigration, a trial for parasitism and the discovery of new opportunities for his native language abroad - all these are milestones in the life of the great poet.
Indeed, a genius is first cast down to the average, made an outcast, and then his legacy is studied.
"…All attempts to revive the past resemble efforts to grasp the meaning of life," Brodsky believed. This book is a story by Joseph Brodsky's second cousin, Mikhail Kel'movich, an attempt to trace the poet's fate through his family, which was filled with an amazing atmosphere of unity and mutual assistance. Everything was
common and shared among all - parents, close relatives - the family hearth, family memory, the beloved "one-and-a-half rooms" in Leningrad.
These memories will help the reader engage in a dialogue with the poet through a touch to his family and roots.