The collection is currently the most complete collection of works by I. Brodsky, a Nobel laureate in literature. It includes not only works published in our country and in the West, but also those that previously existed only in manuscripts. The first volume included poems from 1957-1965. The first and second volumes of this publication were prepared on the basis of a collection of poems by I. Brodsky, compiled by V. Maramzin in 1972. The publication was prepared by the Pushkin Foundation, to which I. Brodsky transferred the exclusive right to publish his works within the former USSR.