How the first book of Joseph Brodsky was published
The author thanks for the invaluable help and advice of Gabriel Superfin, Thomas Ventzlov, Alexander Raskin, Andrei Ustinov, Roman Utkin, Maria of Christ, Archivists of the Research Center of Eastern Europe (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa), as well as the curator of the Giverford in Stanford Lidenham (Carol Leadenham) for permission to use materials from the archive of Gleb Struve (© Stanford University) and his letters from other archives.