Visitors to the Anna Akhmatova Museum, in the Southern Wing of the Sheremetevsky Palace, St. Petersburg, may have stumbled upon a small room dedicated to the writer Joseph Brodsky. Brodsky (born in Leningrad, May 1940 – died in New York, 28 January 1996) ran afoul of the Soviet authorities in 1963. His poetry was denounced by a … Continue reading Red Poets Society →