In memory of
Lidia Chukovskaia

Lidia Chukovskaia

11 March 1907 — 7 February 1996
San Petersburgo · Moscú
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Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya was a Soviet and Russian 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.

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