Volume 43, Number 5 · March 21, 1996
The Russian Academy: Preliminary Notes
By Joseph Brodsky
In the fall of 1995, Joseph Brodsky put forward a plan to found an Academy in Rome where Russian scholars and artists could resume a longstanding tradition of Russian study in Italy. He submitted the following proposal to Francesco Ruttelli, the mayor of Rome, who expressed his enthusiasm for the project shortly before Brodsky's death on January 28, 1996. The search for an appropriate building was already underway. His proposal is reprinted here in full.
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