Yes, Brodsky was a native of Leningrad. One of the apartments he lived in is now a museum that I haven’t gotten around to visiting. An old friend of mine (now gone) did a bizarre monument to him that’s hidden away in the courtyard of a university building. It’s based on an exhibit in the Akhmatova Museum of the actual suitcase that Brodsky left Russia with in 1972, carrying a typewriter, two bottles of vodka and a collection of poems by John Donne.
