Apartment Museum of Joseph Brodsky () is an informal memorial museum, created in 2006 on behalf of the governor of

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...

, in order to preserve the memory of the cultural and literary period 1960-1990, the central figure of which is the poet and

Nobel laureate The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in th ...

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly ...

. The concept of the future exposition deals Anna Akhmatova Museum. The apartment is in the

Muruzi House Muruzi House is a notable apartment building – a former revenue house in central Saint Petersburg, Russia, constructed in 1874–1877 by architects Aleksey Serebryakov and for count Alexander Dmitrievich Mourouzis (Muruzi) on the land that on ...

. The museum does not officially operate, as its founders failed to acquire the whole apartment. Therefore, the museum is still officially a residential unit.

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Музей-квартира И. А. Бродского
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