Lydia Chukovskaya Writer
Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская; IPA: [ˈlʲidʲɪjə kɐrˈnʲejɪvnə tɕʊˈkofskəjə] (13px ); 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.
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| Alias (AKA) | Чуковская Лидия Корнеевна (Russian) |
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| Birth date | March 24, 1907 |
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| Date of death | February 08, 1996 |
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