Sergei Dovlatov
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Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov was a Soviet journalist and writer. Internationally, he is one of the most popular Russian writers of the late 20th century.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, New York, 26 July 2010
Memorial plaque on Dovlatov's house. Saint-Petersburg (Russia), Rubinstein str.
Joseph Brodsky
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Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky, anglicized as Joseph, was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
Sergei Dovlatov
…State University in 1958, but flunked after two and a half years. There, he became acquainted with the Leningrad poets Yevgeny Rein, Anatoly Naiman, Joseph Brodsky, the writer Sergey Wolf, and the artist Alexander Ney. He was drafted into the Soviet Internal Troops and served as a prison guard in high-security…
Brodsky in 1988
Muruzi House, Saint Petersburg, where its Brodsky memorial plaque is visible in the middle of the ground floor of the brown building
Plaque marking where Brodsky stayed in Vilnius
The suitcase with which Brodsky left his homeland, on 4 June 1972, carrying a typewriter, two bottles of vodka, and a collection of poems by John Donne - today displayed in the Anna Akhmatova Museum, Saint Petersburg