Ask anyone even in our time not so conducive to literature: who is Joseph Brodsky? Most will answer that he is from dissidents, the Nobel laureate is a great Russian poet. But after all, "a poet in Russia is more than a poet." He is the ruler of the minds of millions. And Brodsky was like that, at least among like-minded people. After all, it is not for nothing that in the West it has long been believed among Russian-speaking citizens that "Brodsky is really a kind of Pushkin of the twentieth century - their cultural tasks are so similar... It covers the horizon. It cannot be circumvented.... We must either obey and imitate, or reject it...." So who is he, Joseph Brodsky, like the Eternal Jew, wandering around the world: a brilliant poet or an overly engaged writer?