Man of the day: Joseph Brodsky
On May 24, 1940, Joseph Brodsky was born, poet, essayist, translator, Nobel laureate in literature. Personal business Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky (1940-1996) was born in Leningrad in an intellectual family. His father Alexander Ivanovich graduated from the Geographical Department of Leningrad University and the School of Red Journalists. The Brodsky Sr. photojournalist went through the whole war, starting in 1940 in Finland and graduating in 1948 in China.