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Lydia Chukovskaya was born on 24 March, 1907 in Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland (then a part of the Russian Empire), is a Russian writer and poet (1907–1996). Discover Lydia Chukovskaya's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 24 March, 1907
Birthday 24 March
Birthplace Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland (then a part of the Russian Empire)
Date of death 7 February, 1996
Died Place Peredelkino, Russia
Nationality Finland

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1907

Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская; 24 March 1907 – February 7, 1996) was a Soviet writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident.

Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet repression, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov.

The daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky, she was wife of scientist Matvei Bronstein, and a 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 Kornei Chukovsky, a poet who was a children's writer.

She grew up in St. Petersburg, the former capital of the empire torn by war and revolution.

Chukovsky noted 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.

Their house was frequently visited by leading literary figures, such as Alexander Blok, Nikolay Gumilyov and Akhmatova.

The city was also home to the country's finest artists—Lydia saw Feodor Chaliapin perform at the opera, for instance, and also met the painter Ilya Repin.

Chukovskaya got into trouble with the Bolshevik authorities at an early age, when one of her friends used her father's typewriter to print an anti-Bolshevik leaflet.

She was exiled to the city of Saratov for a short period, but the experience did not make her particularly political.

1927

Indeed, upon her return from exile, she returned to Leningrad's literary world, joining the state publishing house Detgiz in 1927 as an editor of children's books.

Her mentor there was Samuil Marshak, perhaps her father's biggest rival in Russian children's literature.

Her first literary work, a short story entitled Leningrad-Odessa, was published around this time, under the pseudonym "A. Uglov".

Chukovskaya fell in love with a young physicist of Jewish origin, Matvei Bronstein, and the two soon married.

1930

In the late 1930s, Joseph Stalin's Great Terror enveloped the land.

Chukovskaya's employer Detgiz came under attack for being too "bourgeois", and a number of its authors were arrested and executed.

Matvei Bronstein also became one of Stalin's many victims.

1937

He was arrested in 1937 on a false charge and, unknown to his wife, was tried and executed in February 1938.

Chukovskaya too would have been arrested, had she not been away from Leningrad at the time.

For several years, her life was to remain nomadic and precarious.

She was separated from her daughter Yelena, and kept in the dark about her husband's fate.

1939

In 1939–1940, while she waited in vain for news, Chukovskaya wrote Sofia Petrovna, a harrowing story about life during the Great Purges.

But it was a while before this story would achieve widespread recognition.

Out of favour with the authorities, yet principled and uncompromising, Chukovskaya was unable to hold down any kind of steady employment.

But gradually, she started to get published again: an introduction to the works of Taras Shevchenko, another one for the diaries of Miklouho-Maclay.

Chukovskaya was a lifelong friend of Anna Akhmatova, whom she visited seeking advice after her Bronstein's arrest.

This was soon after Akhmatova had written her Requiem, which she dared not write down.

Chukovskaya was one of the first to hear it recited in private and commit it to memory.

1941

When they were evacuated from Leningrad in October 1941, after the German invasion of the USSR, they travelled together to Tashkent.

Chukovskaya's next major work Spusk pod Vodu (Descent Into Water) described, in diary form, the precarious experiences of Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko.

This book too was banned from publication in her native land.

1950

During the late 1950s, Sofia Petrovna finally made its way through soviet literary circles, in manuscript form through samizdat.

1953

By the time of Stalin's death in 1953, Chukovskaya had become a respected figure within the literary establishment, as one of the editors of the cultural monthly Literaturnaya Moskva.

1963

Khrushchev's Thaw set in, and the book was about to be published in 1963, but was stopped at the last moment for containing "ideological distortions".

Indomitable as ever, Chukovskaya sued the publisher for full royalties and won.

1964

In 1964, Chukovskaya spoke out against the persecution of the young Joseph Brodsky; she would do so again for Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov.

1970

She wrote a series of letters in support of Solzhenitsyn; these were published in Munich in 1970.

1990

She was the first recipient, in 1990, of the new Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage.