Lydia Chukovskaya
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March 24, 1907 Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland (then a part of the Russian Empire) |
| Died | February 8, 1996 (aged 88) Peredelkino, Russia |
| Genre | fiction, poetry, memoirs |
| Notable works | Sofia Petrovna |
| Notable awards | Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage |
| Spouse | Matvei Bronstein |
| Relatives | Korney Chukovsky |
Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская; IPA: [ˈlʲidʲɪjə kɐrˈnʲejɪvnə tɕʊˈkofskəjə]; 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1907 – February 8, 1996) was a Soviet writer and poet. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. She was herself the daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky, wife of the scientist Matvei Bronstein, and close associate and chronicler of the poet Anna Akhmatova.
Chukovskaya was born in 1907 in Helsingfors (present-day Helsinki) in the Grand Duchy of Finland, then a part of the Russian Empire. Her father was Korney Chukovsky, a poet who is regarded today as perhaps the best-loved children's writer in Russian literature.
She grew up in St. Petersburg, the former capital of the empire torn by war and revolution. Chukovsky recorded that his daughter would muse on the problem of social justice while she was still a little girl. But Lydia's greatest passion was literature, especially poetry. It could hardly have been otherwise, given her pedigree and circumstances — their house was frequently visited by leading members of the Russian literati, such as Alexander Blok, Nikolay Gumilyov and Akhmatova. The city was also home to the country's finest artists — Lydia saw Chaliapin perform at the opera, for instance, and also met the painter Ilya Repin.
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