Lydia Chukovskaya records her meeting with Brodsky in Peredelkino on 18 May
“18 May, Thursday. Peredelkino.
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He rose, saying something about the time. I got up too. We embraced. I kissed him on his prickly, unshaven cheek.
“God keep you,” he said (I should be the one saying it to him!).
We went quickly into the hall, and I opened the door for him.
“So there goes the boy,” he said, stepping over the threshold.
“Everything is still there,” I said.”
From Lydia Chukovskaya’s notes on Brodsky. It seems they never met again
