Writing
May 24, 1940
Died at age 55
January 28, 1996
Date of Death
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
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Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters.