Lydia Chukovskaya
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1907 – 1996
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Who was Lydia Chukovskaya?
Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya 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.
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- Born
- Mar 24, 1907
Helsinki - Also known as
- Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская
- Lidiya Korneevna Chukovskaya
- Parents
- Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 8, 1996
Peredelkino
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on July 23, 2013
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