Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская, 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1907 – February 8, 1996) was a Soviet writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident. 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. 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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24 March 1907 Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland
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Died |
8 February 1996 (aged 88) Peredelkino, Russia
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Zodiac | Aries |
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