Joseph Brodsky - a Soviet poet, playwright, essayist and translator.He was born and lived in the Soviet Union, but his work was not accepted by the authorities in his homeland, he was accused of parasitism, and Brodsky had to emigrate from the country.
poet Brodsky
In his work reached great heights, his name is known all over the world.Even in exile he awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
only during perestroika began publishing his poetry at home.Until that moment, Brodsky was known to a limited circle of people in the USSR.He was invited to come back, but he postponed his visit.
After his self-imposed exile, he never visited Russia and died in exile.His memory is created Brodsky Museum in St. Petersburg.
American office of Brodsky at the Museum of Anna Akhmatova
Brodsky never lived in the Fountain House, moreover, he had never visited.But he was very close with Anna Akhmatova.
In 2003, the poet's widow donated to the museum items from his home in Saunt Hadley, where he lived.This furniture, posters, library, a collection of postcards and many other small things.Even there was a place the suitcase, which left the country Brodsky.
Akhmatova Museum presented some of them in the exhibition.The office is a desk, sofa, chair, lamp, typewriter.You can also see the installation media artist Bystrov, which tells of Leningrad and the house where he lived Brodsky.
Museum tried to put all the items exactly as it was in the office of the poet.The magazine racks are precisely those newspapers that read Brodsky.There is a pile of invoices and receipts, and cushions laid out on the couch as well as a poet.
Background sound recording of the trial, after which he was sent into exile.In the office, you can watch movies about Brodsky.
's office so you had all kinds of people: students and older people, those who are familiar with his work, and those who do not know about it.
apartment poet
Despite the fact that Brodsky is an honorary citizen of the city of St. Petersburg and a great poet, until recently it was mentioned only in the exposition at the Museum of Anna Akhmatova.
apartment Brodsky in St. Petersburg, where he lived with his father and mother, decided to turn into a museum in memory of the poet.
room is located on Foundry Avenue, 24, in the apartment house Muruzi.In this building we lived and visited many famous writers: Merezhkovsky, Gippius.Here Gumilev opened Poets Union.
The apartment Brodsky family moved into in 1955, Brodsky lived there until 1964, when he was sent into exile for parasitism.Then he returned and lived there before emigrating.
Work on the museum
Brodsky Museum in St. Petersburg planned to organize more in the nineties.Many prominent figures of culture, both domestic and foreign, have asked for the establishment in the former apartment of the poet's museum to the governor.He gave the nod, but did not participate in the process.
Five of the six rooms in a communal apartment fund of the museum was able to buy back the means of sponsors.To do this, it took nearly fifteen years.
first repair work ended on the 75th anniversary of the poet, and the museum-apartment of Brodsky opened for free visits for one day.And after it was closed for further repairs, the completion date is unknown.
museum exposition
Exposition house-museum Brodsky shows the main events in the life of the poet from the beginning of his literary career.
In the museum you can see half of the room, where Brodsky lived with his father and his mother, a communal kitchen and rooms neighbors.
also exhibit includes prints of images that made the familiar and the father of the poet, preserved elements of the interior and the sculpted portraits.
creators of the museum tried to keep the atmosphere of a Soviet communal apartment where the poet lived.The rooms can be heard recording of poetry that reads Brodsky himself.
museum opened for the day, these exhibits virtually no, because the construction and repair work is not finished.But in the future it is supposed to place the things that gave the museum the widow of the poet.
Obstacles
Great difficulties caused resettlement of residents of communal apartments, where he lived Brodsky.The museum was able to place in the five rooms of a communal apartment, but six still living neighbor.She did not agree to sell their room, and the organizers of the museum decided to isolate exposure.Because of this lost opportunity to the tourists to come to the front door.
Now the museum-apartment of Brodsky uses the back door, and once a person falls down the stairs to the kitchen.And in the future, probably will remain so.This greatly upset the organizers of the museum.
In addition to lack of finance the work on the creation of the museum is complicated by legal and domestic problems.The house is old, in disrepair and require a lot of repair facilities, primarily for the conservation of the exhibits.
It is necessary to transfer the apartment in uninhabited fund, to Brodsky Museum in St. Petersburg appeared officially.And who knows how long it will take a bureaucratic procedure.There
and professional problems.Look at what should be a museum apart.Museum Director Akhmatova believes that the need to preserve the authenticity of the room, the spirit of the time, without embellishment.
It is possible in the future Museum Brodsky expects the expansion.Organizers of the museum thought about purchasing an apartment below, or attic.While the museum can accommodate about ten people at a time.
