Zhizn' okazalas' dlinnoy

"Vsled za Iosifom Brodskim ya nadeyus', chto “Bog sohranyaet vse; osobenno – slova proschen'ya i lyubvi, kak sobstvennyy svoy golos”. Kniga moya – blagodarnaya dan' pamyati". Iosif Brodskiy, priezzhaya v Moskvu, ostanavlivalsya v dome Lyudmily i Andreya Sergeevyh ("tut byl obzhityy im divan, lyubimoe kreslo-kachalka", velis' "zadushevnye razgovory"); Sergeevy byvali u Anny Ahmatovoy ("porazili odnovremenno ee prostota i velichie"); avtor sblizilas' s Nadezhdoy Mandel'shtam ("ne velikaya vdova, a zhenschina, kotoraya umeet vnimatel'no slushat' i veselo smeyat'sya"); Andrey Sinyavskiy byl ee universitetskim uchitelem, a krestnoy mater'yu stala Mariya Rozanova ("svyaz' nasha ne tol'ko druzhestvennaya, no i duhovno rodstvennaya").