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Lydia Chukovskaya

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born

Russian Federation

gender

female

genre

History, Nonfiction

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Lydia 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.
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'. During the late 1950s, 'Sofia Petrovna' finally made its way through Russia's literary circles, in manuscri...more

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Books by Lydia Chukovskaya

Average rating: 3.80 · 246 ratings · 25 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya, Лидия Чуковская, Aline Werth (Translation) 3.74 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1967 — 7 editions	My rating:
	To the Memory of Childhood by Lydia Chukovskaya, Eliza Kellogg Klose (Translator), Лидия Чуковская 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941 by Lidiia Korneevna Chukovskaia, Лидия Чуковская 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Akhmatova journals by Lydia Chukovskaya, Anna Akhmatova 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1989	My rating: