Joseph Brodsky Correspondence 1965-1972

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Joseph Brodsky Correspondence 1965-1972

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Poet. Letters from Brodsky to Kira Fedorovna Samosiuk including Brodsky's poetry and drawings.

20 items; 1 container; .2 linear feet

eng,

pol,

rus,

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6357275

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996

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Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky (Joseph Brodsky) (1940-1996), a Russian poet, was born May 24, 1940 in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia) to Jewish parents. He left school at the age of fifteen to study independently, teaching himself English and Polish. In 1964 he was arrested by Soviet authorities on charges of "social parasitism" and sentenced to five years of hard labor on a state farm near the Arctic Circle. He was released after serving less than two years of his sentence, but in 1972 he...

Samosi︠u︡k, Kira Fedorovna

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