The Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, above, wrote a travel book about Venice, called “Watermark,” published in 1992. “I would like to live my next life in Venice,” he wrote.

After a decades-long standoff with the last resident of a communal apartment, a private museum has finally opened in Brodsky’s shared home in St. Petersburg, a rare grass-roots victory in Russia.

WATERMARK. Joseph Brodsky. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 135 pages. $15. Falling in love with certain books can be like falling in love with certain human beings. At first, there may be indifferenc… ...

Brodsky’s typewriter, currently housed in the Anna Akhmatova Museum, in St. Petersberg, Russia. In his piece about Joseph Brodsky that appeared in the magazine in May, Keith Gessen wrote about ...

The apartment where Joseph Brodsky lived with his parents, now a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. (May 24, 2015) (AP) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

Watch an audio slideshow of Joseph Brodsky with an excerpt from Alexander Genis's book "Brodsky In New York." Seventy years ago this week, Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad. He died on January ...

Joseph Brodsky’s “American cabinet” is a part of display in the Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum in the “Fountain House” in St. Petersburg. In 2003, ...

Joseph Brodsky and his company Ninety Plus grow some of the world’s best coffee beans, which have sold for more than $2,000 a pound and won the industry’s top award four years running.

Joseph Brodsky and Ellendea Proffer Teasely, in 1970 Leningrad.(Courtesy of Ellendea Proffer Teasely) By . Laura DeMarco, The Plain Dealer; ...

Like Boris Pasternak, Poet Joseph Brodsky was such an abstainer. A softspoken, red-haired Jewish youth who lived in Leningrad, he chose not to join a writers’ union, ...