After a decades-long standoff with the last resident of a communal apartment, a private museum has finally opened in Brodsky’s shared home in St. Petersburg, a rare grass-roots victory in Russia.
New York Times: Joseph Brodsky slept here
A man visits the museum-apartment Joseph Brodsky in Saint Petersburg, on May 22, 2015. The museum will open its doors to the public on May, 24, 2015. Brodsky, a Nobel Prize winner Soviet dissident who emigrated to the West, lived in this flat from 1955 to 1972 years with his parents.
