Joseph Brodsky is one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century. During his short life, according to current ideas, he erected a huge building of poems, poems, as well as works of a special genre he created - “great poems”. True to the traditions of Russian classics - Pushkin, Lermontov - Brodsky rapidly expanded the field of his creative work. He is the author of plays, essays, most of which are written in English. In 1987, Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his multifaceted creativity, marked by sharpness of thought and deep poetry.” Comments by Sergei Vinitsky.