Daughter and granddaughter of Joseph Brodsky: how the heirs of the poet live

Joseph Brodsky is one of the main Russian and American poets of the 20th century, a Nobel laureate in literature, playwright and essayist. Brodsky was born in pre-war Leningrad, from a young age he was interested in literature and art, read a lot, admired the work of Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, Auden, Frost, and knew Anna Akhmatova. The story of his family and heirs is told by the publication “Gossip".

Anna Brodskaya-Sozzani / Pelageya Basmanova. Photos from social networks

At the age of 23, Brodsky was publicly accused of parasitism, sent to a psychiatric hospital, and later to exile. Here is a short excerpt from the minutes of the trial of Joseph Brodsky:

Judge: In general, what is your specialty?
Brodsky: Poet, poet and translator.
Judge: And who recognized that you are a poet? Who ranked you among the poets?
Brodsky: No one. (Without calling). And who ranked me among the human race?
Judge: Did you learn this?
Brodsky: What
Judge: To be a poet? They did not try to finish the university where they prepare ... where they teach ...
Brodsky: I did not think ... I did not think that it was education.
Judge: And what?
Brodsky: I think it is ... (perplexed) from God ...

Returning from exile, Brodsky falls under the keen attention of the KGB. Despite constant harassment, harassment and psychiatric examinations, Brodsky continues to write poems. They are printed in samizdat, shipped abroad. By Brodsky comes worldwide recognition in literary circles. In 1972, the poet was summoned to the OVIR and offered to leave the USSR. He flies first to Austria, and then to the USA, to the USSR, he will not return again.

The personal life of the poet is reflected in his poems. Brodsky's great love is the artist Maria Basmanova. They met in 1962 year in Leningrad, quarreled, converged again. In 1967, Marina gave birth to Brodsky’s son Sergei. For many years before and after leaving Brodsky devotes poems to Marina, signing them with the initials MB.

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Honey, I left home late tonight
breath of fresh air, with stainless Ocean.
Sunset was burning down on the stalls with a Chinese fan,
and the cloud swirled like a concert piano lid.

A quarter of a century ago, you were addicted to lyulya and dates,
drew in ink on a notebook, sang a little,
had fun with me; but then got along with a chemical engineer and,
judging by the letters, monstrously stupid.

Now they see you in the churches in the provinces and in the metropolis
on the dirge for common friends, now going solid
succession; and I am glad that the world is a distance of more than
unthinkable than between you and me.

Don't misunderstand me. With your voice, body, name
nothing is no longer connected; no one destroyed them
but to forget one life - a person needs at least
one more life. And I lived this share.

Lucky for you: where else, except maybe photos,
do you always stay without wrinkles, young, cheerful, mocking?
For the time, faced with memory, learns of her powerlessness.
I smoke in the dark and breathe the rot of low tide.

Brodsky gets American citizenship. He writes in Russian and English, teaches at leading universities of the world. In 1990, Brodsky marries his student, Italian aristocratic Maria Sozzani, a Russian maternal. Friends say that next to Maria the poet looks peaceful and happy. Three years later, Maria and Joseph give birth to a daughter, Anna. Three years later, Brodsky died of a heart attack in his apartment on Morton Street. Under the will of the poet, he was buried in Venice at the cemetery of San Michele.

Thanks to social networks, we can follow the life of the young heirs of Joseph Brodsky, Anna Brodskaya-Sozzani’s 24-year-old daughter and Pelageya Basmanova, 20-year-old granddaughter. The first does not like publicity, the second, on the contrary, seems to be eager for her: most recently she became Bala’s debut Tatler.

The girls have a very small difference in age, although one of them is the other niece. Yes, and they are very different. We tell what the heirs of Brodsky are alike and how different they are.

Heirs life

Anna Alexandra Brodskaya-Sozzani lives in Italy, where she recently moved from England. She came to the homeland of her father, who is very similar in appearance, only once - a couple of years ago to celebrate his 75 anniversary. In St. Petersburg, Anna visited the opening of the museum-apartment of the poet and talked to journalists (with the help of an interpreter, Brodsky’s daughter does not know Russian). It was then that Anna said that she and her partner have a little daughter, Shea. They live on the income from the sale of copyright on the creative heritage of Brodsky.

Anna Brodskaya. Photo: social networks

Anna Brodskaya-Sozzani with a partner. Photo: social networks

Anna Brodskaya-Sozzani with her daughter. Photo: social networks

Photo: social networks

Photo: social networks

Pelagia lives with his family in St. Petersburg, where he studies at the Interregional Institute of Economics and Law at the Faculty of Communicative Design. A student who is very similar to her grandmother, the poet's first love, dreams of opening her own branding agency.

Pelagia Basmanova. Photo: social networks

Pelagia Basmanova. Photo: social networks

Pelagia Basmanova. Photo: social networks

Pelagia Basmanova. Photo: social networks

Pelagia Basmanova. Photo: social networks

Hobbies

Anna, like her father, is a creative person:

I love to dance jazz very much, I sing songs at home, but I didn’t learn either dance or music, and I have no special talent. I accompany myself when I fold my clothes or wash dishes in the kitchen,

- said the poet’s daughter in an interview with reporters.

The granddaughter of Brodsky, who now belongs to a secular society, is a romantic nature with unusual habits: for example, she loves, like her grandfather, the smell of algae. She also rides a longboard, walks with friends and three dogs along the shore of the Gulf of Finland.

Photo: social networks

Social Networks

Anna Brodskaya-Sozzani is an active user of the network Instagram, but it has not many subscribers (by the standards of celebrity children): only four thousand people. With followers, Brodsky’s daughter shares everything that comes into her view. Judging by the pictures, Anna has a rebellious spirit: quite often in her tape there are very bold shots in which she is naked.

Anna Brodskaya-Sozzani. Photo: social networks

Instagram-Pelageya’s account is much more modest in all respects: in all published frames (55 pieces) the girl is captured in clothes, and there are an order of magnitude fewer subscribers. However, after the Debutante Ball, it seems to us, she should have more fans.

Pelagia Basmanova. Photo: social networks

Attitude to the work of Brodsky

A couple of years ago, Anna Brodskaya-Sozzani told Russian journalists that she did not know her father’s work very well. She prefers to get acquainted with Brodsky's poetry gradually.

I decided to stretch my acquaintance with the work of my father in time — I will get to know them all my life, so that at least imitate my relationship with him,

- said Anna.

Pelagia seems to be familiar with the poetry and autobiographies of her grandfather. Some works even quoted by heart.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find him. But my mother kept in touch with him. He passed on the gifts that we keep - a bear, a book about Bunny and outfits. My love for the smell of algae brings me closer to my grandfather. As he wrote in “The Embankment of the Incurables”: “The attachment to this smell should, without a doubt, be attributed to childhood on the shores of the Baltic, in the fatherland of the wandering siren from Montale’s poem.”

By the way, Anna and Pelagia are familiar: the girls met at the opening of the Brodsky Museum-Apartment to celebrate the poet's 75 anniversary in St. Petersburg. However, whether Anna and Pelageya continue to communicate is unknown.

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