The Rossiyskaya Gazeta edition of November 2, 2009 has issued a non-published interview with the Nobel Prize winner, poet Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996).
      
      The questions were asked by Valentina Polukhina – a philologist, the author and compiler of several books on Brodsky.
      
      In this interview Brodsky says that his major enemy is “intellectual and spiritual vulgarity” and confesses that “the USA is a very vulgar country”.
      “One of the central themes of the interview is the poet’s literary guidelines. Brodsky points out four authors, who influenced him more than others: Baratynsky, Tsvetaeva, Derzhavin and Kantemir. Brodsky also mentions, that works by Anna Akhmatova, with whom he closely associated, are not the kind of poetry that he is interested in, though he likes Akhmatova’s poems.
      
      Source: lenta.ru